Timekeeper - Softcover

Atkinson, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977607631 ISBN 13: 9780977607631

Verlag: Fisher King Pr, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

"Award winning author John Atkinson tells an intriguing tale of a boy's coming-of-age with this fast-paced memoir that reveals the toughness of youth as well as its vulnerability. No one with any feeling in their makeup could resist this engaging young man's journey to freedom and a wild dog's devotion and uncompromising love and sacrifice." Jean C. Keating, award winning and Pulitzer nominated author of the Genna Kingsley and Sky dog mystery series.- "John Atkinson's Timekeeper is an engrossing, heartfelt account of a young man's quest for self-discovery and a place at the table of life. Johnnyboy's evolution into Timekeeper will have you rooting for this engaging underdog." -Howard Owen, author of Turn Signal and Littlejohn

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John Atkinson's novella, Mercy Me, was nominated for a Library of Virginia Award in 2001. Other awards include first place fiction at the Chesapeake Bay Writer's Conference. Over the past twelve years, his articles and short stories have appeared in local newspapers and magazines. Three chapters of 'Day of Reckoning' were published in 2005 In Good Company. John is an active member of The Chesapeake Bay Writer's Club, The James River Writers, and The Virginia Writer's Club.

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"It's more humane to face a firing squad than a classroom, humiliated because of illiteracy. One is swift, the other leads to a lifetime of isolation and hardship. Timekeeper is my triumph over letters. Parts of my journey are no longer clear. Forty-eight years later, I have re-imagined events that seem most consistent to my memory. In 1959 ground swept under my feet like a starving man scrambling for his next meal. I'd fled a dysfunctional family in Virginia. I met many people along the way, but no one could compare with Chief in Oklahoma. He filled a void in me and taught me how to join together the many pieces of life. Chief wasn't surprised that I'd crossed the country at the age of fourteen. I was a big kid and had become hardened to the ways of the streets. Right away Chief understood why I didn't fit in. The main thing was, I couldn't read. He looked into my soul and saw the suffering I'd endured in the white man's world. He also saw into my future. Anyone with a lick of sense would've been frightened of Chief, an old medicine man with strange powers. But after everyone else had given up on me, he saw how I could help myself. At first I thought he was foolish as a fish flopping on a riverbank when he said I should go north to a place he'd visited as a boy. Hell, that was back before we had automobiles. But he said I would go with a great power. I couldn't imagine where the power would come from. I thought it had to be a strong car, a big Buick Road Master. Every boy my age wanted a car. But the old man gave me a name, Timekeeper. I was no longer Johnnyboy, the affectionate name my Mama had called me. But the gift of the new name stayed a mystery for forty-eight years, the time it took me to figure out Chief 's predictions. For all those years I've searched for his meaning, and now I know." Johnnyboy - What I Love About Your Writing: To hear your resonate voice telling your stories stirs up memories long forgotten. Your writings are compelling, captivating,a page-turner that can't be put down. Eccentric characters and their names are unforgettable, delightful. Adventurous and more fun than a piano hurling off a truck, plotting suspense and tension at every turn, making us laugh out loud and cry in secret. Your human warmth and compassion come through boldly as you write with your heart. You always surprise and treat us, filling our souls with yearnings for more. And you understand the top of the hill, The Sacred Mountain making us soul mates." - a tribute from- Margaret Wyson Johnston Sibley -

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fisher King Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0977607631
• ISBN 13: 9780977607631
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 238
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