Leap of Faith & Other Tales from the Pennsylvania Coal Region

Leap of Faith & Other Tales from the Pennsylvania Coal Region
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Publisher : University of Scranton Press
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ISBN-10 : 1589661850
ISBN-13 : 9781589661851
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Book Synopsis Leap of Faith & Other Tales from the Pennsylvania Coal Region by : Richard Benyo

Download or read book Leap of Faith & Other Tales from the Pennsylvania Coal Region written by Richard Benyo and published by University of Scranton Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eastern Pennsylvania during the 1950s: King Coal has been dethroned, the railroads are all but defunct, and the region is in an economic depression. Fathers are forced to commute many miles to work, while at home the kids know no other pastime but to run wild in the woods. From the same author who intrigued readers with his whimsical stories of childhood in Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here comes an all-new batch of coming-of-age tales in Leap of Faith. In these eight stories, the adults are often offstage, leaving the children to make up the rules as they go. From the story of an unrepentant bully who gets more than he deserves to the tale of a boy who finds serenity in short bursts of flight, Richard Benyo captures a time and a place where small triumphs are enormous, where the strong rule and the swift survive, and where the outside world--beyond the mountains that enclose Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania--seldom intrudes.


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