Sporty Creek (Paperback, New edition)

Although subtitled "a novel about an Appalachian boyhood," these are ten short stories strung together, eight of them reprints from sources as diverse as the Saturday Evening Post and the Virginia Quarterly Review, the most recent over 20 years old. All are narrated by a boy whose family moves from place to place, eking out a living in Depression-era Kentucky. They range from the broad country humor of "Simon Brawl," about a mule who leads the boy everywhere but straight on his first try at plowing - "I reckon we made all the letters of the alphabet" - to the sadness of "The Moving," when they leave their house in a boom-busted mining town to a crowd of boys who "kept glancing at the windows, pockets bulging with stones." There is vitality in characters like Uncle Jolly, "forever traveling the road on a fool horse, hunting mischief," or Pap, full of money-making schemes that never work out. But both the heavily - sometimes needlessly - footnoted dialect and the squashed-small type are off-putting. (Kirkus Reviews)

When work ceases in the Kentucky coal mines during the Depression of 1929, a young boy and his family move to the mountains to live off the land.

General

Imprint:	The University Press of Kentucky
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1999
First published:	August 1999
Authors:	James Still
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	128
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8131-0965-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories Books > Children's & Educational > Fiction > General Books > Children's Fiction & Fun > General
LSN:	0-8131-0965-5
Barcode:	9780813109657

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