Burning The Furniture
Burning The Furniture by Dan Smith is a creative memoir published by AuthorHouse in November 2006. This 184-page book is written in English and explores the author’s experiences growing up in the Old South within a large family, navigating the complexities of poverty, alcoholism, and racism, while also celebrating the joys of childhood and imaginative play.
Readers will find a narrative that delves into the newspaper business during a transformative era in American history, marked by social change and conflict. The memoir combines elements of personal reflection and storytelling, revealing Smith’s journey through active alcoholism and his path to redemption. With a blend of compassion, humor, and candidness, this work offers insights into both the challenges and the lighter moments of life, making it a unique addition to the genres of biography and personal memoirs.
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Burning the Furniture, Dan Smith’s third book, is an off-beat creative memoir of growing up in the Old South in a large family amid poverty, alcoholism, racism and the very real joys of being a boy at a time when “creative play” was an activity and not a psychologist’s directive. It is a story of the newspaper business at a time of great change in a country that was occasionally on the verge of tearing itself apart in war and of social evolution. It is a work full of compassion, humor, pain and challenge by a writer able to look inside his own physical and psychological environment from a safe distance. Dan Smith’s journey into and beyond active alcoholism is a story of redemption that is often almost physically painful and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.
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