Ugly to Start With

Ugly to Start With

by John Michael Cummings
Ugly to Start With

Ugly to Start With

by John Michael Cummings

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Overview

Jason Stevens is growing up in picturesque, historic Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in the 1970s. Back when the roads are smaller, the cars slower, the people more colorful, and Washington, D.C. is way across the mountains—a winding sixty-five miles away.
 
Jason dreams of going to art school in the city, but he must first survive his teenage years. He witnesses a street artist from Italy charm his mother from the backseat of the family car. He stands up to an abusive husband—and then feels sorry for the jerk. He puts up with his father’s hard-skulled backwoods ways, his grandfather’s showy younger wife, and the fist-throwing schoolmates and eccentric mountain characters that make up Harpers Ferry—all topped off by a basement art project with a girl from the poor side of town.
 
Ugly to Start With punctuates the exuberant highs, bewildering midpoints, and painful lows of growing up, and affirms that adolescent dreams and desires are often fulfilled in surprising ways.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781935978084
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Publication date: 10/01/2011
Edition description: 1st Edition
Pages: 178
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range: 13 - 17 Years

About the Author

John Michael Cummings is a short story writer and novelist from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. He is the award-winning author of The Night I Freed John Brown.

Table of Contents

•The World Around Us
•Two Tunes
•Ugly to Start With
•The Fence
•We Never Liked Them Anyway
•The Wallet
•Rusty Clackford
•Mountain Wake
•John Brown the Quaker
•Carter
•Indians and Teddy Bears Were Here First
•The Scratchboard Project
•Generations
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