Bob Thompson 
Hitchhiker [PDF ebook] 
Stories from the Kentucky Homefront

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Growing up next door to his Granny’s country store in Mc Cracken County, Kentucky, a very young Bob Thompson had unlimited access to the cold-drink box and shelves of candy. Only later did he realize that the greatest benefit of this arrangement was that his playmates and best friends were all adults who frequented the grocery. As he passed his childhood years on the store’s front porch, Thompson internalized the tales and folk traditions conveyed by his grandmother and her customers. These moments allowed him to discover his own passion for storytelling.

In Hitchhiker: Stories from the Kentucky Homefront, Thompson offers readers homegrown tales that interweave ghosts of the past with real and imagined worlds. The stories progress from his Tom Sawyer–esque childhood in Western Kentucky through his various incarnations as everything from an incense-burning flower-child hitchhiker to an unrepentant adventurer following the footsteps of Hemingway and the Lost Generation across Europe. This collection brings together coming-of-age tales, family stories of bygone eras, and even true accounts of unsolved murders and mysteries.

Hitchhiker is Huckleberry Finn meets The Twilight Zone, with just a taste of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. It is a book that will make you wish you’d paid closer attention to your grandparents’ and parents’ stories and photo albums, that you’d been less cautious and traveled more, that you’d followed your heart and made time to search for your guides and kindred spirits.

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Foreword
Introduction
River Watch
Lucy
Turtles
Fox
Hal & George
Tommy
Hitchhiker
Buzz
Fat Tuesday
Lucky Guy
Drumbeats
I’ve Got a Story for You Too
Mary
D-Day Beaches
Other Dimensions
Recycling
Acknowledgments

Sobre o autor

Roberta Simpson Brown is a retired teacher and an acclaimed storyteller. She is the author of The Walking Trees and Other Scary Stories, Queen of the Cold-Blooded Tales, and Scared in School.

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Língua Inglês ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 166 ● ISBN 9780813174297 ● Tamanho do arquivo 7.8 MB ● Editora The University Press of Kentucky ● Cidade Lexington ● País US ● Publicado 2017 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 5286728 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
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