Crum: The Novel
Morgantown, WV: Vandalia Press, 2001. 2nd Edition. Hardcover_cloth. 5.25"x8.25". 170 pp. Dark green cloth boards w/silver letters on front and spine. First printing. Cover photo by Lyntha Scott Eiler. Book design by Alcorn Publication Design. Introduction by Meredith Sue Willis. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, and unmarked. Minor shelf wear to DJ. GIFT QUALITY. Collectible - Fine / Near Fine. Item #5159
ISBN: 9780937058800
300 copies. Find out why this fictional tale set in a Wayne County coal town irritates so many people, and why som many others - including Meredith Sue Willis, Stephen Coonts, Terry McMillan, and thousands of readers - love it.
Like lots of teenagers, the boy at the center of Crum doesn't know where he's going, but he knows he is leaving. This novel, named after a real-life, gritty little coal town on the West Virginia-Kentucky border, offers a sometimes shocking, often outrageous, and always irreverent look at a young man's attempt to escape his home. In Crum, the boys fight, swear, chase and sometimes catch girls, and have unflattering things to say about their neighbors across the river in Kentucky. The adults are cramped and clueless, hemmed in by the mountains that loom over this tiny suffocating town. And to boys flush with the hormones of youth, this situation is full of wonder, dejection, and even possibility. Lee Maynard, a native of Crum in Wayne County, West Virginia, spins this critically acclaimed tale of a young Jesse Stone, whose rebellion against the people and the place of his childhood allows him to reject the comfort and familiarity of his home in search of his place in a larger world.
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Price: $75.00