A Long Row to Hoe eBook Billy C Clark
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Boston University, the site of the world’s finest repository of 20th Century literature, praises Billy C. Clark as “one of the South’s most distinguished writers.” In this fascinating and highly readable book, Clark, founder and editor of Virginia Writing, writes of his own astonishingly primitive childhood in an Appalachian river town, Catlettsburg, Kentucky, at the junction of the Big Sandy and the Ohio Rivers.
Billy C. Clark was a member of a sprawling, ragged family. His father was an intelligent, fiddle-playing shoemaker with little formal education. His mother often took in washing to help provide food for the family. Billy grew up in a derelict house, “The Leaning Tower,” on the banks of the Ohio. Always hungry, often dirty, and without sufficient clothing, he led an adventurous life on the two rivers, swimming, fishing, and salvaging flotsam from the frequent floods. He set trout lines for fish and trap lines for mink and muskrats, and he walked fourteen miles before school to clear his traps. He learned laughter from his magnificent mother and wisdom from his father, who taught him that “poor folks have a long row to hoe….” Billy was the only one of his family to seek an education, and through his traps, his river salvage, and odd jobs, he earned money to put himself through school. The book ends with a powerful account of his parents’ pride at his graduation.
Time Magazine said that this book is “as authentically American as Huckleberry Finn.” It is a touching account of a boy and two rivers. It is a must for public and school libraries, or anyone interested in Appalachian history or literature.
A Long Row to Hoe eBook Billy C Clark
If you grew up in a rural area you will enjoy this book. If growing up was a daily struggle, this will be one of the best book you will read, even though you may not want to recall those struggles. You will discover that some of those times almost forgotten, actually weren't so bad after all. It is important to know from where we came, because navigating the future is hard enough in itself. Life's lessons will provide the best update to your GPS available. This book is a easy read, and the author has done an excellent job keeping it entertaining and poignant. Read this book. Amazon will deliver it to your door.Product details
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A Long Row to Hoe eBook Billy C Clark Reviews
A long rode to ho.
It is not mispronounced it is misspelled, 188,000 times on a Google search and 74,000 times with the word row. This author is welcome to spell whatever he likes however he like from any source he desires. He probable did better, selling this book as titled, then if he would have under the correct spelling or pronuciation.
Rode is a length of chain and rope that is put out from the ship to the anchor. A long rode is required when it is windy or the current is strong. To pull a rope on a ship is to ho short for heave ho. The call on a ship "Heave Ho" is used when hauling a line, rope, halyard or rode. The group will advance on the rope on the command Heave and pull on the command Ho. If it is stormy and or windy the long rode to ho is hard work. The meaning is still the same. I hear the book is great.
This book is written so well I have read it many times. It is set in the depression era and brings you to that time with laughter and tears. Billy C. CLark describes small town living along the Big Sandy River which was once the cities life. I think people of all ages would love this heart felt book.
I have liked this book ever since I read it more than twenty-five years ago. It is slightly bitter in tone, but there were reasons for that. People should treat one another better. Town people are not any better than "river rats", and from my point of view I would rather raise a river rat than a town brat.
Clark went on to graduate from the University of Kentucky, and become a prolific writer. ("Sourwood" Tales is one of the best which I read even before "A Long Row to Hoe"), and literature professor.
He is, in my opinion, among the best of the living Kentucky writers.
Clark is from the same town in eastern Kentucky that my Mother is. I spent a lot of time out there as a child so it made this book that much more enjoyable. Clark talks about his childhood growing up in eastern Kentucky, being a "river rat", hunting, fishing and trapping to make money, chicken fights, corrupt greedy landlords, whiskey bootleggers, dogs, the constant threat of floods, fiddle playing, the very folkish pagan like characters that inhabited the hills and communed with the "spirits", all this and lots more. This is a great read. Clark is second only to Jesse Stuart as far as recording an authentic real voice of eastern Kentucky.
If you grew up in a rural area you will enjoy this book. If growing up was a daily struggle, this will be one of the best book you will read, even though you may not want to recall those struggles. You will discover that some of those times almost forgotten, actually weren't so bad after all. It is important to know from where we came, because navigating the future is hard enough in itself. Life's lessons will provide the best update to your GPS available. This book is a easy read, and the author has done an excellent job keeping it entertaining and poignant. Read this book. will deliver it to your door.
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