Hungry for the World (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Kim Barnes
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The 1970’s and 1980’s
- Setting: Lewiston, Idaho, and surrounding areas
- Principal Characters: Kim Barnes, Her father, Her mother, Tom, David M. Jenkins
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, 1980’s, Sex roles, Idaho
- Locales: Lewiston, ID
Kim Barnes’s first book, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country (1996), was awarded the PEN/Jerard Fund Award and was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. In this beautifully written memoir, Barnes recounts her unusual childhood at a remote logging camp in Idaho. The text chronicles her acceptance of, then escape from, Pentecostal religion. Throughout, Barnes depicts her parents and near relatives well, describes natural wonders in the wilderness around the Clearwater River, and inserts narrative vignettes that reinforce scene,...
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