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Book SynopsisPulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin grew up in Illinois and now teaches in the MFA program at the Ohio State University. Like many recent titles that IUP has put out successfully, this has a strong Midwest connection and a terrific writing style.
Trade ReviewAn award-winning fiction writer, essayist, and memoirist, Martin (b. 1955) creates an affecting portrait of his troubled childhood in a small Illinois farming town. . . . Martin's hard road involved recognizing his emotional legacy: inheriting from his father a constant feeling of wariness against forces that were "waiting to hurt me" and from his mother, a desire to believe in a God who will keep him "safe and free from harm."
* Kirkus Reviews *
Gone the Hard Road is a follow-up to his first memoir, told in thirteen connected essays. It focuses on his mother, a compassionate woman, who, in spite of her family's hardships, remains positive and optimistic. . . . In Gone the Hard Road, Martin tells his story of growing up in rural Illinois with great passion, love, and undying hope.
-- Debbie Hagan * Brevity *
Table of ContentsThe Hard Road
If "If's" and "But's" Were Candies and Nuts
The Healing Line
Bachelors
Gone the Hard Road
Spook
Noble
A Month of Sundays
Imposters
Bastards
Once upon a Time
My Lost Year
Mischief Afoot
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