Download or read book The Golden Spur written by Dawn Powell and published by Zoland Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the re-release of the late Dawn Powell's acclaimed fiction, this is the story of an engagingly amoral hero who desires to replace his real father with an imagined one. Using his mother's diaries, he seeks the off-beat artist or writer whose youthful indiscretion he believes he might have been--in the process coming to grips with his parentage and himself. Originally published in 1962.