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1-878086-68-5
$14.95 paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/2
316 pages
Down Home Press
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What a book Tim
McLaurin has written! Full of exuberance, pain, violence, joy, and the
kind of wisdom that's hard to come by.--Lee Smith
Here is an
honesty that will make you weep, laugh, grind your teeth and howl at the
moon, all of it done--strange to say--with a joy as mysterious and
unanswerable as the beating of your own heart. --Harry Crews
Keeper of the Moon...sings
and dances and uplifts the human heart. This is fine and beautiful
writing, sad and funny and deeply moving. --Larry Brown
A childhood gift of a
telescope made Tim McLaurin "the keeper of the moon" and set
him on the path to becoming a writer. But just as his second novel was
about to come out, a diagnosis of bone marrow cancer not only threatened
his life but sent him on an introspective journey into his own past.
This fascinating, prize-winning memoir was the result, bringing acclaim
both from critics and from fellow Southern novelists.
about the author
Tim McLaurin was a Marine and Peace Corps volunteer who once was
known as Wild Man Mac, proprietor of a traveling snake show. He was the
author of several other books, including The Acorn Plan, Cured
by Fire, The Last Great Snake Show, Lola,
Keeper of the
Moon, The
River Less Run, and Another
Son of Man. He died in 2002.
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