The Year the Lights Came On (Brown Thrasher Books Ser.)
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- Synopsis
- Reader’s Guide: “The Year the Lights Came On is Terry Kay's evocative tale of Colin Wynn, an twelve-year-old boy growing up in rural northeast Georgia. The year is 1947, and in Colin's hometown of Emery, Route 17 divides the community into the haves and the have-nots--those with and without electricity. This boundary creates a common bond among Colin and the other members of the Our Side Gang in their frequent confrontations with their affluent neighbors, the Highway 17 Gang. But then the Rural Electrification Administration brings electricity to the homes of the less privileged and Colin boasts that the wires will ‘knit us into the fabric of the huge glittering costume, Earth.’ “Drawing upon his own memories of growing up in Royston, Georgia, Kay follows Colin, his brother Wesley, and their friends through fierce battles fought on the school playground, an exhilarating visit to the Brady Dasher Flying Circus, desperate attempts to throw a search party off the trail in the Black Pool Swamp, and gleeful celebrations when all-important baseball games are won. “With an array of characters like Rev. Bartholomew R. Bytheway, a reformed fertilizer salesman who operates the Speaking-In-Tongues Traveling Tent Tabernacle, and Freeman Boyd, a Georgian Huck Finn who knows the swamp as well as the other boys know their backyards, Terry Kay's book draws a marvelously nuanced portrait of the rural South poised on the brink of change following World War II.”
- Copyright:
- 2007
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 337 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780820329611
- Publisher:
- University of Georgia Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/30/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Terry Kay
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
- Submitted By:
- Barbara Baker
- Proofread By:
- Sister M. Dolores Dean
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.