The Whisper of the River (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140083873)

The bittersweet and very funny story of a young man's journey to adulthood that the Nashville Banner called "Americana at its best."

Young for his class and small for his age, Porter Osborne, Jr., leaves his rural Georgia home in 1938 to meet the world at Willingham University, armed with the knowledge that he has been "Raised Right" in the best Baptist tradition. What happens over the next four years will challenge the things he holds infallible: his faith, his heritage, and his parents' omniscience. As we follow Porter's college career, full of outrageous pranks and ribald humor, we sense a quiet, constant flow toward maturity. Peppered with memorable characters and resonant with details of place and time, The Whisper of the River is filled with the richness of spirit that makes great fiction.

"Wry, incisive, delicately structured, emotionally complex, and hilarious." -- Atlanta Magazine

Author: Ferrol Sams
ISBN-10: 0140083871
ISBN-13: 9780140083873
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Language: English
Published: 02/04/1986
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.05w x 0.99d