Jimmy Crack Corn by Glenn Carley

Jimmy Crack Corn by Glenn Carley

Set in landscapes both terrible and fantastic-yet uncomfortably close to home-Jimmy Crack Corn: A Novel in C Minor>recounts the journeys of exhausted urban warrior and DoGooder Jimmy the Bleeder as he explores what it means to be good at something you did not set out to do. Along the way, innocence is remembered, transformed, oppressed, stolen, and restored in both self and other. Inspired by the rhythms of the poignant 19th-century folk song, Jimmy Crack Corn>is in the end both an entertaining read and an acute meditation on the preservation of meaning in our everyday lives.

Like the folk song on which it draws, Glenn Carley's latest novel lays bare line after line of deeply felt, often achingly familiar truth. In>Jimmy Crack Corn, Carley assembles a chorus of vivid, precisely imagined characters grappling with questions of freedom and innocence as only a writer with four decades of social work experience can. Still, the plot, which traces the lived rhythms of 'DoGooder Jimmy the Bleeder, ' plays second fiddle to Carley's full-bodied, typically playful and always poignant language to produce a raw, warm, and lyrical work. ---In the Hills Magazine

Carley, Glenn: - Glenn Carley was born in Trenton, Ontario. He is the author of Polenta at Midnight: Tales of Gusto and Enchantment in North York (Vehicule Press, 2007), and his book Il Vagabondo: An Urban Opera will be published by Guernica Editions in 2021. His stories have appeared in Italian Canadians at Table: A Narrative Feast in Five Courses (Guernica Editions, 2013) and in Accenti Magazine. Good Enough from Here is his second book. A retired chief social worker, Glenn lives in Bolton, Ontario with his wife Mary. Their family is blessed with a daughter, son and daughter-in-law.

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ISBN 13	9781772442588
ISBN 10	1772442585
Title	Jimmy Crack Corn
Author	Glenn Carley
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Rock's Mills Press
Year published	2022-10-11
Number of pages	128
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