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Author:

Kay, Terry, author. 103703

Title:

The year the lights came on : a novel / by Terry Kay ; afterword by William J. Scheick.

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

�2007

Description:

viii, 337 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Boys--Fiction.
Rural families--Fiction.
Rural electrification--Fiction.
Georgia--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Notes:

[Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1976]. "Brown thrasher books."

Summary:

Revolving around the electrification of rural northeast Georgia shortly after the end of World War II, the novel has become a classic coming-of-age story. Kay, now an acclaimed writer with an international following, has reread the novel with the eyes of a seasoned storyteller. Cutting here and adding there, Kay has enriched an already highly comical and poignant work.

ISBN:

0820329614
9780820329611

OCLC:

(OCoLC)983214251

LCCN:

2006039281

Locations:

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

DNPA403 -- Stanhope Public Library (Stanhope)