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K I N G D O M W I T H I
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McGraw-Hill Book Co.,
New York City, New York 1979.
169 pp.
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The Kingdom With: A Spiritual
Autobiography is a fictional
account, based in part, on Jesse Stuart’s heart
attack. Shan Powderjay suffers a heart
attack and while fighting unconscious he
“dreams” about leaving the hospital
where he encounters many of the
fictional characters in Stuart’s works, as well as flesh and blood
people. Shan makes his way to Plum
Grove, where he watches his own funeral.
Gaining consciousness, he is released
from the hospital. As his wife, Jean,
drives him home to W-Hollow, he
looks for but fails to see what he
experienced in his dream. He tells his
wife, “I have a story to tell you, Jean.
I want to tell you what happen to me at
Kingston Hospital!” He wife
replies, “You like to write. Write
your
story for me, Shan!”
One critic wrote that the book
“permitted the poet-author to review his
own work through focusing on his
characterization and his own life as a
man-artist reflected in the twin mirror
of Shan Powderjay,
Jesse Stuart’s alter-ego” (Richardson,
Jesse, 445). |
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