Bøker av George Spain

This is a true story about a magical day in the author's neighborhood in 1946, when, as one of the little boys this story is about, he learned something that changed his life forever. Billy Bob, TC, Double M and others were the best friends of his childhood, and those decades were a different time, when children could run loose, and did. When they played with pocket knives and shot each other with rubber-guns and BB-guns and used inappropriate language when their parents couldn't hear. And when they learned unexpected lessons in unexpected places. There are some parents who will be unhappy because the children in this story use language adults might wish they did not ... though all children no doubt do so, when their parents are not around. Some readers are going to be disappointed because the neighborhood in the story is not an inclusive one, so not all children will find visual images of themselves reflected here. But the lesson itself is a universal one. Maybe it is for our children. Or maybe it's for us. Things ain't always the way they appear to be.

From a Halloween story about five little boys to tales of revenge, werewolves, ghosts, and even children who kill to the tune of nursery rhymes, George Spain's most recent anthology contains thirteen stories sure to give you a shiver.

George Spain began writing poetry int he early nineteen sixties. First to be published was Leningrad 1941-42 in "Soviet Life" in Russia. He was so pleased he wanted to defect, but his wife, Jackie, wouldn't go. While most of his writings are historical fiction, poetry has given him a special freedom to express beliefs, experiences, and emotions with their hurts and joys.

Twenty-one wonderful short stories from the author of My People: Stories of the South, Lost Cove, Come Sit with Me, and Dreaming the Fire Away, Sundancing with Crazy Horse tells stories of a little boy lost in the mountains, wild children, a memorable summer shared by five young friends, prejudice and friendship, life and death, and more.

These stories are filled with glories and failures of my homeland, the South. They tell about five young boys who help win World War II; Lulu and her ladies of ill fame; Sister Bertha, a kind and gentle nun; Ya-nu, the Cherokee Bear Man; J.R., ranger and tracker in our search for a little boy lost in the Smokies; a mountain woman who exacts a terrible revenge; a folie a deux murder; the Ku Klux Klan's Hall of Fame Guidebook; the love of a former slave and an old confederate for one another; and many other fine folks who inhabit my land.