Jim the Boy

"As the sun began to set, Jim and the uncles watched the last yellow light of the day slide up the mountain toward the bald, dragging evening behind it. When the light went out of their faces, they turned and watched it retreat up the peak, where at the summit a single tree flared up defiantly before going dark. A chilly breeze whipped from nowhere across the bald and flapped the legs of Jim's overalls. He turned with the uncles for a last look at the view before heading down the mountain. All but the brightest greens had drained out of the world, leaving in their stead, an array of sombre blues. A low fog had begun to seep out between the trees along Painter Creek. Jim jumped down from the rock and looked toward home." At once delightful and wise, Jim The Boy brilliantly captures the pleasures and fears of youth at a time when America itself was young and struggling to come into its own.

Winner of Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Fiction) 2001

Tony Earley is the author of Jim the Boy, Here We Are in Paradise, and Somehow Form a Family. He lives with his family in Nashville, TN, where he is the Samuel Milton Fleming Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

This exquisitely wrought story of a boy named Jim growing up in North Carolina during the Depression with his mom and three uncles exhibits a clear-eyed maturity, and an understated daring, rarely seen in the most cutting-edge adult fiction. - Los Angeles Times Book Review

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