Chuck Kinder

• 1973
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This novel is a moving evocation of a time and place -- an Appalachian boyhood in the 1940s. The book describes the coming of age of Speer Whitfield, raised by a zany spinster aunt and a family of memorable characters: a sister who is slowly dying,...

• Jun-2001
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Chuck Kinder's long-awaited and critically acclaimed magnum opus chronicles the misadventures of best friends Ralph Crawford and Jim Stark, two of the most promising writers of their day, and the wives with whom they have spent the best years of thei...

• Jul-2014
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From Publishers WeeklyAt the beginning of this bawdy, in your face, hugely entertaining bear of a book, Kinder explains that he intends to tell readers about his home state, West Virginia, land of "legendary mountain dancers, moonshin...

• Jul-2016
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Fiction. Jimbo Stark, teenage soldier of fortune, loves, fights, drinks, mopes, and steals his way through this brilliant novel of the late 1950s. His America glows with an almost romantic light -- it is an electric, song-filled garden for teenage lo...

• Sep-2021
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