![]() ![]() "I was worked like a jack*** for the worst part of my childhood, and offered up to climate and predator and vice, and introduced to solitude, and braced against hope, and dangled before the Lord our God, and schooled in the subtle truths and blatant lies of a half life in the American countryside, all because my parents did not trust that I would mature to their specifications in town. ![]() He begins with his childhood, his family having left town life for the country, namely, Goochland County, Va. That's the case with Ben Metcalf's debut novel, Against the Country (Random House), a tale told by a droll, misanthropic narrator. Sometimes, a book doesn't lend itself to an "elevator pitch"-it can't be adequately described without an extensive quote. ![]()
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