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Synopsis
Virgil Eugene Combs is born on July 14, 1940, in the mountains of eastern Kentucky with cerebral palsy. His father Harold is a coal miner. His mother Dora Mae keeps the family together by sheer force of quiet. He has two brothers, Lonnie and Earl Ray. The novel follows Virgil from his birth to his death on his eighty-sixth birthday — the same July Tuesday he was born — and it follows the family around him just as closely.
Virgil cannot speak clearly. His hands do not work the way hands are supposed to work. He lives, nonetheless, a full life: he works, he marries Wanda Faye, he raises children, he endures, he is loved and he loves back. The novel does not explain him or redeem him in the way books sometimes do with people like him. It simply shows his life, the way a family shows you a photograph and does not feel the need to say anything about it.
It is a literary novel set across eight decades in Perry County, Kentucky. The reader it is written for is someone who grew up knowing people like this, or who wished they had.
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À propos de l'auteur
Jackie L. Smith - known to most as Jack - is a retired United States Navy veteran whose service spanned two decades, from 1959 to 1979. He went to sea aboard aircraft carriers, crossed the Atlantic for hunter-killer training with the Sixth Fleet, served with helicopter squadrons, and traveled to ports from Boston to Quebec City to the Mediterranean. While on active duty he earned a bachelor's degree from Chaminade University in Honolulu and later a master's degree from Central Michigan University. After retiring from the Navy he spent eight years running a specialized hospital for the State of Oklahoma, then served another twenty years as a civilian with the United States Air Force, retiring in 2009 after more than four decades of public service.He began writing novels in his eighties.What started as a single book has become fifteen - thrillers, family crime stories, time-travel adventures, and portal fantasies. His novels draw on the institutional life he knew firsthand: the chains of command, the loyalty between brothers in arms, the quiet weight of doing the right thing when it costs you something. He writes about ordinary people who get pulled into extraordinary trouble, and the kind of stubborn integrity that gets a man through it.Jack lives in Staffordsville, Kentucky. He collects stamps, repairs computers, plays a lot of FreeCell.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Virgil Combs was born with cerebral palsy in a time and place that had no patience for weakness. Eastern Kentucky did not make allowances. The mountains did not bend. And yet Virgil did not bend either - not through two bankruptcies, not through sons who broke his heart one by one, not through a lifetime of working with a body that drew his right hand inward and made every task twice as hard as it was for any other man. He worked. He prayed. He mowed. He cleaned. He kept going.Drawed In follows the Combs family of eastern Kentucky across more than six decades - from the early years of Virgil and Wanda Faye's marriage through the full arc of a life built from almost nothing and held together by stubbornness, faith, and a refusal to ask for what he had not earned. When they arrived in Hazard in February of 1964 with nothing but each other, Virgil took a janitor job and started a mowing business. He built it account by account, added a soap delivery route, put magnetic signs on both doors of his truck, and became a deacon in the church he cleaned.Five children came. The sons, one by one, ran into felonies, jail, child support failures, and probation violations. Wanda Faye bought them cigarettes and commissary money. Virgil wanted harder love. Wanda Faye overruled him every time. He said once, quietly: I never asked nobody fer nothin I didn't earn. He did not need to say it again.A doctor told Virgil at forty-two that he had Parkinson's disease. It was not Parkinson's. It was cerebral palsy doing what cerebral palsy does as a body ages. He would not be correctly understood for nearly thirty more years, when his brother Lonnie finally spoke the right name out loud. What a man does with a truth he receives at seventy is not the same as what he does with it at thirty.Virgil mowed until he was eighty-five. Wanda Faye never left his side.Drawed In is a novel about home - about what it means to stay in a place when leaving would have been easier, about what we pass down to our children even when we do not mean to, and about the particular grace of a life that does not look like much from the outside and contains everything on the inside. Spanning decades of hardship and devotion, this moving saga follows a resilient man battling physical limitations and family turmoil to build a life of quiet dignity and unyielding faith. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798996054367
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Virgil Combs was born with cerebral palsy in a time and place that had no patience for weakness. Eastern Kentucky did not make allowances. The mountains did not bend. And yet Virgil did not bend either - not through two bankruptcies, not through sons who broke his heart one by one, not through a lifetime of working with a body that drew his right hand inward and made every task twice as hard as it was for any other man. He worked. He prayed. He mowed. He cleaned. He kept going.Drawed In follows the Combs family of eastern Kentucky across more than six decades - from the early years of Virgil and Wanda Faye's marriage through the full arc of a life built from almost nothing and held together by stubbornness, faith, and a refusal to ask for what he had not earned. When they arrived in Hazard in February of 1964 with nothing but each other, Virgil took a janitor job and started a mowing business. He built it account by account, added a soap delivery route, put magnetic signs on both doors of his truck, and became a deacon in the church he cleaned.Five children came. The sons, one by one, ran into felonies, jail, child support failures, and probation violations. Wanda Faye bought them cigarettes and commissary money. Virgil wanted harder love. Wanda Faye overruled him every time. He said once, quietly: I never asked nobody fer nothin I didn't earn. He did not need to say it again.A doctor told Virgil at forty-two that he had Parkinson's disease. It was not Parkinson's. It was cerebral palsy doing what cerebral palsy does as a body ages. He would not be correctly understood for nearly thirty more years, when his brother Lonnie finally spoke the right name out loud. What a man does with a truth he receives at seventy is not the same as what he does with it at thirty.Virgil mowed until he was eighty-five. Wanda Faye never left his side.Drawed In is a novel about home - about what it means to stay in a place when leaving would have been easier, about what we pass down to our children even when we do not mean to, and about the particular grace of a life that does not look like much from the outside and contains everything on the inside. Spanning decades of hardship and devotion, this moving saga follows a resilient man battling physical limitations and family turmoil to build a life of quiet dignity and unyielding faith. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798996054367
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Virgil Combs was born with cerebral palsy in a time and place that had no patience for weakness. Eastern Kentucky did not make allowances. The mountains did not bend. And yet Virgil did not bend either - not through two bankruptcies, not through sons who broke his heart one by one, not through a lifetime of working with a body that drew his right hand inward and made every task twice as hard as it was for any other man. He worked. He prayed. He mowed. He cleaned. He kept going.Drawed In follows the Combs family of eastern Kentucky across more than six decades - from the early years of Virgil and Wanda Faye's marriage through the full arc of a life built from almost nothing and held together by stubbornness, faith, and a refusal to ask for what he had not earned. When they arrived in Hazard in February of 1964 with nothing but each other, Virgil took a janitor job and started a mowing business. He built it account by account, added a soap delivery route, put magnetic signs on both doors of his truck, and became a deacon in the church he cleaned.Five children came. The sons, one by one, ran into felonies, jail, child support failures, and probation violations. Wanda Faye bought them cigarettes and commissary money. Virgil wanted harder love. Wanda Faye overruled him every time. He said once, quietly: I never asked nobody fer nothin I didn't earn. He did not need to say it again.A doctor told Virgil at forty-two that he had Parkinson's disease. It was not Parkinson's. It was cerebral palsy doing what cerebral palsy does as a body ages. He would not be correctly understood for nearly thirty more years, when his brother Lonnie finally spoke the right name out loud. What a man does with a truth he receives at seventy is not the same as what he does with it at thirty.Virgil mowed until he was eighty-five. Wanda Faye never left his side.Drawed In is a novel about home - about what it means to stay in a place when leaving would have been easier, about what we pass down to our children even when we do not mean to, and about the particular grace of a life that does not look like much from the outside and contains everything on the inside. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798996054367
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Virgil Combs was born with cerebral palsy in a time and place that had no patience for weakness. Eastern Kentucky did not make allowances. The mountains did not bend. And yet Virgil did not bend either - not through two bankruptcies, not through sons who broke his heart one by one, not through a lifetime of working with a body that drew his right hand inward and made every task twice as hard as it was for any other man. He worked. He prayed. He mowed. He cleaned. He kept going.Drawed In follows the Combs family of eastern Kentucky across more than six decades - from the early years of Virgil and Wanda Faye's marriage through the full arc of a life built from almost nothing and held together by stubbornness, faith, and a refusal to ask for what he had not earned. When they arrived in Hazard in February of 1964 with nothing but each other, Virgil took a janitor job and started a mowing business. He built it account by account, added a soap delivery route, put magnetic signs on both doors of his truck, and became a deacon in the church he cleaned.Five children came. The sons, one by one, ran into felonies, jail, child support failures, and probation violations. Wanda Faye bought them cigarettes and commissary money. Virgil wanted harder love. Wanda Faye overruled him every time. He said once, quietly: I never asked nobody fer nothin I didn't earn. He did not need to say it again.A doctor told Virgil at forty-two that he had Parkinson's disease. It was not Parkinson's. It was cerebral palsy doing what cerebral palsy does as a body ages. He would not be correctly understood for nearly thirty more years, when his brother Lonnie finally spoke the right name out loud. What a man does with a truth he receives at seventy is not the same as what he does with it at thirty.Virgil mowed until he was eighty-five. Wanda Faye never left his side.Drawed In is a novel about home - about what it means to stay in a place when leaving would have been easier, about what we pass down to our children even when we do not mean to, and about the particular grace of a life that does not look like much from the outside and contains everything on the inside. Spanning decades of hardship and devotion, this moving saga follows a resilient man battling physical limitations and family turmoil to build a life of quiet dignity and unyielding faith. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798996054367
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