Sunday's Child: Memories of a Mid-western Boyhood: 1923-1943

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"Carter has written a memoir that captures the quintessential America that now seems to be slipping away from us. A real treat."
--John Tebbel, author, A History of Book Publishing in the United States

"Deeply movingâ¦The book is a delight, and, of course, you write like a dreamâ¦Your introductory comments on the subject of memoirs are interestingâ¦Congratulations on what I believe we used to call a great read, and more than that, a deeply affecting record."
--Ellen Feldman, author, Lucy

"Robert Carter has that rare quality in a writer whose prose is transparent: nothing apparently stands between the reader and the world of the 1930s and early 1940s. That world is portrayed as essentially an unflinchingly revealed emotional one; there is a heartbreaking account of his mother's death--an event that drives his subsequent relations."
James Scanlon, Professor Emeritus of History,
Randolph-Macon College