Marbles

by Oxford Stroud

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Wise, funny, and utterly original, Marbles is the story of a who grows up in rural Alabama in the 1930s. He learns about life from a unique group of characters, including his zealous aunt (who is the town lush), his racy uncle (a WWI pilot), his best friend (a math and music whiz), and his first sweetheart, the minister's vestal daughter (who turns out to be anything but).… (more)

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A coming-of-age story set in rural Alabama in the 1930's, in which young Silas O'Riley Simeon and his friend Shelly grow up among the "antebellum mansions and moonshine whiskey, catalpa grubs and deadly moccasins, first flights, first kisses - and marbles". (

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For my mother, Viola Goode Liddell; and my wife Mary Anne Stroud

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I was ten and unbaptized when Aunt Rebecca discovered my fatal flaw, after which she put the verbal lash to Mother, and I was scheduled for sprinkling the following Sunday in Deen Presbyterian Church.

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Wise, funny, and utterly original, Marbles is the story of a who grows up in rural Alabama in the 1930s. He learns about life from a unique group of characters, including his zealous aunt (who is the town lush), his racy uncle (a WWI pilot), his best friend (a math and music whiz), and his first sweetheart, the minister's vestal daughter (who turns out to be anything but).

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