My Mother, My Friend
Book Details
Author(s)George Burk
PublisherBeachhouse Books
ISBN / ASIN1888725095
ISBN-139781888725094
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank7,722,206
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
The story of a boy and the love of his mother.
In 1998, Captain George Burk s story of his experience as a plane crash and burn survivor, The Bridge Never Crossed---A Survivor s Search for Meaning, earned an outburst of praise. Now, seven years later, the retired Air Force Officer, speaker, writer and author, returns with his second memoir, this time delivering a poignant reminiscence of his big-city Irish/German upbringing filled with love and loss and fierce family and ethnic pride.
In the tradition of Dennis Smith s A Song for Mary and Willie Morris s North Toward Home, George portrays with humor and pride the trials and challenges he faced as a boy of Irish and German descent growing up in a Sheraden, a blue collar town a few miles southwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As George matures from nine years of age to eighteen, when he leaves home for college, he grows in respect and admiration for his hard-working, courageous, and determined mother, Willa. Readers also come to know George s sometimes distant father and as well as his warm and vibrant family and the friends who shared his experiences. As George journeys into manhood, we share his athletic endeavors, his triumphs and failures, and his enduring love for his mother.
Tall for his age, a bit naïve, athletically gifted, easily embarrassed and struggling with uncertainties George Burk was, in many ways, a young man destined for some type of success. Through it all, he could always count on his mother, who, at the cost of her own dreams, sometimes hilariously, always lovingly pulled him along into adulthood. His Irish/German roots were always a source of inspiration and determination. They whispered to him to be all that he could be and provided strength of faith and family and an innate grittiness and how George learned that said never give up. My Mother--- My Friend describes the attitudes that led him to excel in athletics and his career in life---how he learned to deal with bullies and refuse to take abuse from anyone---his urge to steal a longed for kiss---and his eventual departure for college.
My Mother--- My Friend is, above all a universal story of a mother s love for her only son and her son s desire and determination to make his mother proud.
In 1998, Captain George Burk s story of his experience as a plane crash and burn survivor, The Bridge Never Crossed---A Survivor s Search for Meaning, earned an outburst of praise. Now, seven years later, the retired Air Force Officer, speaker, writer and author, returns with his second memoir, this time delivering a poignant reminiscence of his big-city Irish/German upbringing filled with love and loss and fierce family and ethnic pride.
In the tradition of Dennis Smith s A Song for Mary and Willie Morris s North Toward Home, George portrays with humor and pride the trials and challenges he faced as a boy of Irish and German descent growing up in a Sheraden, a blue collar town a few miles southwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As George matures from nine years of age to eighteen, when he leaves home for college, he grows in respect and admiration for his hard-working, courageous, and determined mother, Willa. Readers also come to know George s sometimes distant father and as well as his warm and vibrant family and the friends who shared his experiences. As George journeys into manhood, we share his athletic endeavors, his triumphs and failures, and his enduring love for his mother.
Tall for his age, a bit naïve, athletically gifted, easily embarrassed and struggling with uncertainties George Burk was, in many ways, a young man destined for some type of success. Through it all, he could always count on his mother, who, at the cost of her own dreams, sometimes hilariously, always lovingly pulled him along into adulthood. His Irish/German roots were always a source of inspiration and determination. They whispered to him to be all that he could be and provided strength of faith and family and an innate grittiness and how George learned that said never give up. My Mother--- My Friend describes the attitudes that led him to excel in athletics and his career in life---how he learned to deal with bullies and refuse to take abuse from anyone---his urge to steal a longed for kiss---and his eventual departure for college.
My Mother--- My Friend is, above all a universal story of a mother s love for her only son and her son s desire and determination to make his mother proud.
