{"product_id":"9780743217255","title":"An Hour before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood","description":"In an American story of enduring importance, Jimmy Carter re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed it and the country. \u003cbr\u003e In what is sure to become a classic, the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLiving Faith\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSources of Strength\u003c\/i\u003e writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy. Along the way, he offers an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and strict segregationist who treated black workers with his own brand of \"separate\" respect and fairness, and his strong-willed and well-read mother, a nurse who cared for all in need -- regardless of their position in the community. \u003cbr\u003e Carter describes the five other people who shaped his early life, only two of them white: his eccentric relatives who sometimes caused the boy to examine his heritage with dismay; the boyhood friends with whom he hunted with slingshots and boomerangs and worked the farm, but who could not attend the same school; and the eminent black bishop who refused to come to the Carters' back door but who would stand near his Cadillac in the front yard discussing crops and politics with Jimmy's father. \u003cbr\u003e Carter's clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heartbreaking and complex. In his singular voice and with a novelist's gift for detail, Jimmy Carter creates a sensitive portrait of an era that shaped the nation. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAn Hour Before Daylight\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to stand with other timeless works of American literature.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126645244144,"sku":"9780743217255","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780743217255_p0.jpg?v=1763638793","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780743217255","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}