The Education of Little Tree

Carter, Forrest (Asa Earl)

ISBN 10: 044002319X / ISBN 13: 9780440023197

Published by Delacorte Press, New York, 1976

About this Item

Offered as a memoir of Little Tree, an orphan raised by his Cherokee grandparents in their Tennesseee log cabin. Later to be revealed as fiction, the author was not Cherokee but segregationist and former Ku Klux Klan organizer Asa Earl Carter. First printing. Bumped with a touch of wear at the edges, drip mark to the upper edge of the text block. Pages tanned, binding square and solid, previous owner's gift inscription inside. Jacket lightly rubbed and crimped with two short tears to the upper edge. Lower corner of the rear flap creased, in Brodart.

Seller Inventory # 231267

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Education of Little Tree
• Publisher: Delacorte Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 044002319X
• ISBN 13: 9780440023197
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

This autobiography describes Forrest Carter's boyhood with his Cherokee grandparents in the mountains of Tennessee. Carter, called "Little Tree" by his grandparents, who took him in when he was orphaned at the age of 5, recounts his boyhood years in prose which combines a child's innocence with a gift for storytelling. The book contains hair-raising and often hilarious stories and is infused with the traditional native wisdom of the Cherokee. The late Forrest Carter was Storyteller-in-Council to the Cherokee Nation and the author of "Gone To Texas", the basis of the film "The Outlaw Josey Wales".

Review

"Some of it is sad, some of it is hilarious, some of it is unbelievable, and all of it is charming."

"There's humor, tragedy, tenderness and most of all, love . . . . A lot of people received a lot of education from their grandparents that schools don't offer. But few have expressed it as well as Little Tree has. Very good reading."