Cloud of Expectation

Cloud of Expectation:American classic in the makingSummer, baseball, and Ricky Nelson . . . the fi rst stirrings of rock n roll on the radio . . . bicycles, soda pop, and puberty on the way . . . kids suspended between the Farm World, the Town World, and the Great World.Therell be no more books like this because times, as they say, have changed. Take it as a gift from way-back-then to now; or a critic might call it the LastTrain from Mayberry.An accomplished, lyrical vision of a locality over several generations. --- Kirkus ReviewsI so enjoyed your fi rst book --- I couldnt put it down!--- Gertrude BarnstoneRich with personal and historical detail and sparkling with clear and concisediction, the book succeeds in revealing the bygone, small-town life not onlyof Arkansas but also . . . of an earlier and simpler America as well. --- Larry D. Thomas2008 Texas Poet Laureate