Publication

1981 - Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Language

English

Word Count

52,250 words, Guess

Page Count

209 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100807108979
  • ISBN-139780807108970
  • Goodreads3596801
  • LibraryThing1743982
  • Library of Congress Control Number81006034
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3568.U26 S9
  • LCCPS3568.U26S9

Description

This delightfully subtle second novel about Omar Kohn of Charleston, South Carolina, recalls his fifteenth summer (in the late 1930s), marked by playing baseball, writing for a newspaper, reading about the Civil War, daydreaming, and going on his first date. Underneath such ordinary events, enormous personal changes happen to Omar. He learns about his parents{u2019} frailties and their very different family backgrounds as he sorts through questions about his own identity and destiny.

First Sentence

In the spring of 1939, in the city of Columbia, South Carolina, I went to a movie.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Surfaces of a diamond: a novelLouisiana State University Press1981-01-01

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