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Tax-exempt? | Alone Among the Living A Memoir of the Floyd Hoard Murder "When I was twenty I came face to face with the old man convicted of paying five thousand dollars for the murder of my father." From the gripping first line of this true story, you will follow a young man's journey through grief and despair to acceptance and forgiveness. Summoning the memories of the events surrounding the August 7, 1967, car bombing of Jackson County, Georgia, prosecutor Floyd "Fuzzy" Hoard, Alone among the Living is G. Richard Hoard's remembrance of the father he lost that day and his subsequent struggle to come to terms with the murder. G. Richard Hoard has won writing awards from the Georgia Press Association, the Salvation Army, and the AMMY Foundation. He has taught literature and composition in high school, and speech communication in college while serving as pastor of Oconee River Methodist Church in Bishop, Georgia. Hoard is also author of a work of fiction The Race Before Us. He lives in Watkinsville, Georgia. 2007 ISBN 0820331732 paper • $19.95 • 5.5 x 8.5 in."This extraordinary book is eloquent testimony to the power of forgiveness. In its craft, its compassion, and its humanity, Alone among the Living is more than a wonderful book. It is simply magnificent-a book of lasting value." —Mike Buffington, Jackson Herald"G. Richard Hoard was fourteen when his father, the district attorney in a small Georgia community, was killed by a local bootlegger . . . This book is in part a reminiscence of 1960s small-town life, but only in part. At its core, it is a chronicle of grief and anger and confusion as Hoard tries to come of age without his father's help. He wants to make his dead father proud of him but can't understand the senselessness of what has happened. A compelling story of loss, acceptance, and forgiveness." —Booklist"A book that movingly describes the loneliness, alienation, and anguish everyone feels at some point during their teenage years, albeit on perhaps a less intense scale. He writes of the longing for parental approval that continues even after a parent is gone. And he writes of the universal struggle to make sense of a world that often seems ruled by chaos and to find one's place in it."-Athens Banner-Herald |
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