Cummings John Michael Cummings

Ugly to Start With (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Jason Stevens is growing up in picturesque, historic Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in the 1970s. Back when the roads are smaller, the cars slower, the people more colorful, and Washington, D.C. is way across the mountains-a winding sixty-five miles away. Jason dreams of going to art school in the city, but he must first survive his teenage years. He witnesses a street artist from Italy charm his mother from the backseat of the family car. He stands up to an abusive husband and then feels sorry for the jerk. He puts up with his father s hard-skulled backwoods ways, his grandfather s showy younger wife, and the fist-throwing schoolmates and eccentric mountain characters that make up Harpers Ferry all topped off by a basement art project with a girl from the poor side of town. Ugly to Start With punctuates the exuberant highs, bewildering midpoints, and painful lows of growing up, and affirms that adolescent dreams and desires are often fulfilled in surprising ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: West Virginia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781935978091
• Artikelnr.: 54200402

Autorenporträt

John Michael Cummings is the award-winning author of three novels and over one hundred short stories. His short stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The North American Review, The Iowa Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. He lives in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, where his family has lived for six generations.