
Hack
Bill King(Author)
Trafford Publishing
Published on 20. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-1-4251-2010-8 (ISBN)
Description
Young Hack Patterson gave up on Detroit in 1962 and returned to his roots in a cotton mill village in Alabama. Broke and bored he and his best friend Woozie Thomas agreed to haul a load of moonshine for a local bootlegger. This bizarre episode lands them in a rural county jail for two weeks.
Following the jail stint, both are temporarily employed at a nursing home to assist the staff in preparing for a state inspection.
What happens over the next two months will change their young lives forever as they are peppered by a variety of events and situations that involve some uncanny personality traits of patients who are entering the twilight of their lives.
Profoundly cathartic this extraordinary story enhanced by smidgens of marijuana, lightens the darkness of the human spirit.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Victoria
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4251-2010-8 (9781425120108)
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Bill King's poetry and creative nonfiction has appeared in Kestrel, Appalachian Heritage, Still: The Journal, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Naugatuck River Review, and many other journals and anthologies. He holds an M.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Georgia and teaches creative writing and literature at Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, WV.