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(More customer reviews)This is such an amazing book. Stuart wrote this book which was more or less his life story up to that point as a young man and naively turned it in as a 320 page (much to the Professors horror!) term paper for a University class. Stuarts books hold a special place for me because for one they are just great, and for another one side of family comes from the part of eastern Kentucky Stuart is from. In Beyond Dark Hills he talks a lot about his love of the hills of eastern Kentucky and the spiritual connection he has to the land. Also many stories about the colorful characters he knew, his love of poetry, his struggles venturing out on his own both in working and in academia. Stuart was a brilliant sensitive man but also tough as they come working in steel mills, doing farm work and often having to take up for himself and physically fight. Stuarts books are a great look into the Appalachian culture of that time and show a side of America you can be proud of. They just don't make them like Jesse Stuart anymore.
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Beyond Dark Hills was originally written by Jesse Stuartas a graduate school assignment at Vanderbilt University. Assigned towrite an 18 page personal narrative, he turned in 322 pages about aseemingly simple farm boy and his family. His professor said, "I havebeen teaching for forty years and I have never read anythingso...beautiful, tremendous and powerful..."Stuart shares with the reader all his youthful anxieties as heprepares for life and then ventures forth on his own. He freelyshares his frustrations and successes, as he examines the forces thatmold and shape him into a worldfamous author and educator.
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