ASIN: B00LMTM8SA
Publisher: Harbor Hill Publishing
Pages: 427
Soul of a poet, son of a farmerAbraham Lincoln's early life, as he might have told it had he been so inclinedInescapably human, Abraham Lincoln tells his own coming-of-age story—he’s nerdy, eccentric, awkward, rustic, vulnerable, depressed, sly, witty, brilliant, driven. Lincoln Raw—a biographical novel proves that no matter what raw materials we’re made of or what mistakes we make along our journeys, our values, not our circumstances, determine who we become.Seven-year-old Abraham Lincoln’s boyhood dies when his father drags their family from the relative comfort of Kentucky into an unforgiving Indiana wilderness. While suffering rebuke for teaching himself to read and write, Abraham endures rumors of illegitimate birth, escapes death a half dozen times, labors to repay his father’s debts, and grieves the deaths of his infant brother, angel mother, precious sister, and beloved ...
