{"product_id":"restoring-the-burnt-child-william-kloefkorn-9780803218727","title":"Restoring the Burnt Child: A Primer","description":"Negotiating the no man's land between ages nine and thirteen, this memoir of a small-town boy's life in 1940s Kansas continues the story William Kloefkorn began in his much-loved volume \u003ci\u003eThis Death by Drowning\u003c\/i\u003e. With characteristic humor and in prose as lyrical as his best poetry, Kloefkorn describes the unsentimental education he received at the hands of the denizens of Urie's Barber Shop and the Rexall Drugstore and at the knees of the true characters who made up his family. From the \"firefly\" stunt that nearly burns down his home to the distant firestorms of World War II, fire holds an endless range of subtle and surprising lessons for the boy, whose impressions Kloefkorn conveys with the immediacy, naiveté, and poignancy of youth--and reconsiders with the wisdom and distance of age. By turns charming and resolute, funny and moving, \u003ci\u003eRestoring the Burnt Child\u003c\/i\u003e powerfully brings to life the lost, unforgettable world of a boy, and a poet, coming of age in midcentury middle America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Kloefkorn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803218729\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803218727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.51w x 0.39d","brand":"William Kloefkorn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059748270335,"sku":"9780803218727","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8f52a456-fdea-420f-b21d-cabb18905a56.jpg?v=1685060097","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/restoring-the-burnt-child-william-kloefkorn-9780803218727","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}