From our house
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Lee Martin.
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Martin, Lee, 1955- -- Homes and haunts -- Illinois; Martin, Lee, 1955- -- Childhood and youth; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Illinois; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Agriculture -- Accidents -- Illinois; Fathers and sons -- Illinois; Rural families -- Illinois; Illinois -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Illinois -- Social life and customs
Description: "The American memoir of Lee Martin, born into a farming family the same year his father unexpectedly lost both of his hands. Lee's father, once known for "doing a good turn for his neighbors," changed that afternoon in the cornfields to become an embittered, hardened man. "All our lives have private truths," Martin writes, "and the truth about my father was that after his accident he brought a deep and abiding rage into our home.

I knew his hooks as intimately as I ever knew anything about my father." Lee's mother, called Beulah for the idyllic land at the end of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, never gave up hope that salvation might one day find their home."--BOOK JACKET.