Billy Creekmore: A Novel
He is a motherless child, a coal miner, a circus star, a con artist, a seer, a hero, and a survivor. This is the tale of Billy Creekmore, a young boy with mystifying powers and the gift of storytelling. But his life in the Guardian Angels Orphanage is cruel and bleak, and when a stranger comes to claim Billy, he sets off on an extraordinary journey. From the coal mines of West Virginia to the world of a traveling circus, he searches for the secrets of his past, his future, and his own true self.
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This is the story of Billy Creekmore a juvenile who grows up in an orphanage, is rescued by the deux ex machina of an intervening angel in the guise of his uncle. He lives a “joy filled” life working in the coal mines as a mule skinner (someone who has mules pull tons of coal) till the villain in the form of the Miners Union kill his uncle and various assorted menfolk and male children forcing Billy to run off and join the circus where he is reunited with his father by “accident” and then decides he is no good son of a ....”
The book is mawkishly sentimental, the plot line is contrived, and the voice/tone/something I can't define was annoying.........and yet I couldn't stop reading this horrid little book to the very last page to see how it finally ended. Arrgh.