G. Richard Hoard is a graduate of the University of Georgia and Asbury Theological Seminary. An award-winning author, his books include: The Race Before Us, Through Fear of Death, and The Missing Boys. He and his wife, Candise, make their home near Athens, Georgia.
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.--Philip Lee Williams "author
of A Distant Flame"
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
An important book about one of the most tragic events in Georgia's
history. This personal account not only documents the key events
surrounding the murder of a respected lawman, but also captures the
angst of a young man whose life was forever changed by those
events.--Jackson Herald
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
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