Wolfe's poignant retelling of an episode from his own childhood captures beautifully the experiences of growing up in a mountain town in North Carolina at the turn of the century. It also evokes, in a timeless manner, the tragedy of a family losing a young and promising child. For this special, illustrated edition, Clark unearthed Wolfe's original manuscript, first published in Redbook, and a 1941 text prepared for an anthology.
