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Brighten the Corner Where You Are

by Fred Chappell · 1989 · 212 pages

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This story of a day in the life of Joe Robert Kirkman, a North Carolina mountain schoolteacher, sly prankster, country philosopher, and family man, won the hearts of readers and reviewers across the country.

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Setting
1980samerican southnorth carolina
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 212 pages

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