Kenneth P Smith

Bad Creek (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The story takes place primarily in two mythical counties, McBee and Wofford, ostensibly in the upstate South Carolina. Jadie, a boy of thirteen or fourteen, his mother having died when he was very young and his father in and out of jail, is virtually alone in the world. Having spent most of his young life being shuttled from one foster home to another, he finds himself in the custody of an ill-tempered aunt, an obese and miserable woman who seems to value the monthly check she receives from the state social services much more than she does the boy.

Their lives become inextricably and fatally intertwined with two nameless drifters who roam the rural countryside looking for the boy whom they believe can link them to a heinous crime. Subsequently, as the story unfolds Jadie feels, and the reader knows, that one of the drifters is closing in on him and that an encounter is inevitable and destined. The boy must run. His flight leads to entanglements with a host of characters- an itinerant preacher, a deputy sheriff, a carnival owner, and others-each of whom he believes may be his salvation, but deliverance turns out to be elusive and illusionary.

Bad Creek is a story of alienation, desperation, and struggle as seen through the lives of what may be called the "invisible" people. Their poverty, corporeally as well as morally, is real and palpable. But it is also, alas, a story of hope and how this hope is embodied in the wits and will to survive in the seemingly insignificant life of a young boy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Phenix Books
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780998107141
• Artikelnr.: 69218386

Autorenporträt

I am a native South Carolinian, born and reared in Greenville. I attended public schools and received my undergraduate degree in psychology from Clemson University. I also hold graduate degrees from Clemson and the University of South Carolina-School of Medicine. After working for Greenville County Schools for several years, I entered private practice and currently practice psychotherapy in Greenville. I am married and have two children, a daughter, and a son. I have been writing in one form or another since adolescence. Up until 2014, my work included primarily poems, short stories, and plays. Prior to 2017, poetry is the only work I had ever submitted for publication. Subsequently, a few poems were published in small, obscure poetry journals (likely all now defunct). In 2017, I self-published (working with Bookmasters, Inc.) a full-length novel, None but the Living. The book was well-received locally and received very good reviews. Bad Creek is my second novel. It was recently chosen as one of five finalists in the highly competitive 2018 Novel Competition sponsored by the South Carolina Arts Commission I am currently working on a third novel which is loosely based on the last racially-motivated lynching in South Carolina, which occurred in 1947. When not working or writing, I enjoy reading and hiking in the mountains of South Carolina.