Shim
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Reuben Davis ; with an introduction by Bertram Wyatt-Brown.
Publisher: Banner Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Jackson. Miss
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Plantation life -- Fiction.; Boys -- Fiction.; Mississippi -- Fiction.
Description: In this irresistible coming-of-age narrative picturing the southern wilderness at the turn of the twentieth century, a boy attempts to preserve his beloved backwoods homeland from sawmills and land developers. As civilization encroaches upon this primeval Mississippi Delta landscape filled with canebrakes, panthers, alligators, bears, and men with pistols, young Shim Govan sees heartbreak ahead.
Notes: Originally published: 1953.