The drownt boy
Subtitle: an Ozark tale
By: Art Homer.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press; University of Missouri
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Homer, Art -- Homes and haunts -- Ozark Mountains Region.; Homer, Art -- Childhood and youth.; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Ozark Mountains Region -- Social life and customs.; Missouri -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Ellington (Mo.) -- Social life and customs.
Description: It had been many years since Art Homer had spent time in the region where he grew up as the child of subsistence farmers. In this beautifully written true tale, Homer returns to the Missouri Ozarks with his stepson, Reese, for a three-day canoe trip down the recently flooded Current River. As rain threatens to erupt again and the two prepare for their uncertain trip down the swollen river, a man in a straw hat pulls up to them on the gravel bar. "Did they find that drownt boy yet?" he calls.

So begins an extraordinary trip down a dangerous river, toward unforeseen adventures and into the swirling recesses of memory.