The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life by Robert Goolrick

The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

Robert Goolrick

213 pages first pub 2007 (view editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
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Beneath the bright, picture-perfect surface of a 1950s Virginia professor’s household, a young boy senses the tremor of secrets that will shadow every mask he learns to wear.
For seekers of slow-burn emotional truth.

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It was the 1950's, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but "normal...

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3.46
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dark: 100%

reflective: 100%

emotional: 66%

sad: 66%

challenging: 33%

informative: 33%


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