THE HAND-CARVED CRÈCHE

And Other Christmas Stories
James Kilgo | Author

• $15.95 hardcover
• 112 pages with wood block illustrations
• 1-892514-23-0
• Memoir | Christmas

“Kilgo has . . . a clean, direct style that is lyrical without becoming sentimental. . . . The obvious comparison is to Hemingway”—The New York Times Book Review

the book

In The Hand-Carved Crèche, acclaimed novelist and nature writer James Kilgo gives us his poignant memoir of three Christmas promises kept. The consumate southern storyteller, Kilgo spins together stories from his childhood in Darlington, South Carolina, reflecting on family traditions, the innocence of childhood and its loss, and above all the meaning of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

the author

James Kilgo is a retired professor of English at the University of Georgia. His most recent book, Daughter of My People, was a finalist for the Stephen Crane Award (Book of the Month Club). He is also the author of Deep Enough for Ivorybills and Inheritance of Horses and has published widely in journals and magazines.

the praise

"There's an old way of living in the South simultaneously in the woods and in the Bible, in the great books that flower from the woods and the Bible, and in a Southern conversational pace and generosity, with some unnameable delicacy of phrase. James Kilgo is one of those truth tellers who continuously alters and changes his art as the truth unfolds within its beauty. He is a great soul and his work is a part of the astonishing soul-work that has been done in this region and continues."—Coleman Barks, translator of The Essential Rumi

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