Payne, David, — Ruin Creek.

NY, Doubleday, (1993). 1st ed 1st prn. VG in VG DJ. Here in Ruin Creek, Payne travels deep into the soul of a troubled and unforgettable family and along the way establishes. his rightful place in the legion of great Southern writers who know that we can neither escape nor recapture the past It is 1954 in Killdeer, N. Carolina, a young debutante finds she wants a different life from what Mamma and Daddy had. She finds it in spades with Jimmy Madden, a former high school basketball hero with the dangerous combination of good looks, a smooth tongue and big secret dreams Soon Soon May finds herself pregnant and they decide to get married. But things are tough for both of them in their new tasks. Includes promotional card addressed to Jack Barnes from the New Hampshire Writers and Publishers Project. Jack was a Hiram ME author.