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Kaufman's Hill

By John C. Hampsey

Book information

Publisher
Bancroft Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781610881531, 9781610881548, 9781610881555, 9781610881562, 9781610881579
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3848210 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-11-06 04:07:29
Biography & Autobiography; Nonfiction; BIO026000

Description

Kaufman's Hill opens with a prosaic neighborhood scene: The author and some other young boys are playing by the creek, one of their usual stomping grounds. But it soon becomes clear that much more is going on; the boy-narrator is struggling to find his way in a middle-class Catholic neighborhood dominated by the Creely bullies, who often terrify him. It's the Pittsburgh of the early and mid-1960s, a threshold time just before the full counter culture arrives, and a time when suburban society begins to encroach on Kaufman's Hill, the boy's sanctuary and the setting of many of his adventures. As the hill and the 1950s vanish into the twilight, so does the world of the narrator's boyhood.

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