An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood

by Carter, Jimmy
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ISBN: 9780743211994
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In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country.

Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy, offering an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and a strict segregationist who treated black workers with respect and fairness; his strong-willed and well-read mother; and the five other people who shaped his early life, three of whom were black.

Carter's clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heartbreaking and complex. In his singular voice and with a novelist's gift for detail, Jimmy Carter creates a sensitive portrait of an era that shaped the nation and recounts a classic, American story of enduring importance.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Carter, Jimmy
  • ISBN: 9780743211994
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.20 x 0.78
  • Number Of Pages: 288
  • Publication Year: 2001

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