. . "A moving, account of growing up poor in the Allegheny Mountains in the 1940s and 1950s." . "The author relates his memories of growing up in the 1940s and 1950s in the Allegheny Mountains as the son of a churchless Methodist minister and a fifth-grade schoolteacher." . . . "Spellbound : growing up in God's country" . . . . "Biography" . . . . . . "Pennsylvania" . . . .