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Run with the Horsemen Paperback - 1984

by Ferrol Sams

A boy's account of growing up in the South during the depression era. Both a rare first novel and a new American classic, Sams novel has been compared to Tom Sawyer and To Kill a Mockingbird.


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From the author of The Whisper of the River and Epiphany. In this coming-of-age story, Porter Osbourne Jr. is a precocious, sensitive, and rambunctious boy trying to make it through adolescence during the Depression. On a red-clay farm in Georgia, he learns all there is to know about cotton-chopping, hog-killing, watermelon-thumping, and mule-handling. School provides a quick course in practical joking, schoolboy crushes, athletic glory, and clandestine sex. But it is Porter's family-- his genteel, patient mother, his swarm of cousins, his snuff-dipping grandmother, and, most of all, his beloved though flawed father--who teaches Porter the painful truths about growing up strong enough to run with the horsemen. "The writing is elegant, reflective, and amused. Mr. Sams is a storyteller sure of his audience . . . gifted with perfect timing."--The New York Times Book Review "Remarkable both for its humor and its sustained and detailed picture of a mischievous Southern farmboy's life during the Great Depression."--The Washington Post

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  • Title Run with the Horsemen
  • Author Ferrol Sams
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 1984-07-03
  • ISBN 9780140072747 / 0140072748
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 1 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 2.54 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Demographic Orientation: Small Town
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Bildungsromane, Young men - Georgia - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 83025111
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Ferrol Sams is a physician, humorist, storyteller, and the bestselling author of eight novels rooted in the oral tradition of southern humor and folklore. He lives in Fayetteville, Georgia.
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