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DAD WAS A
CARPENTER
A Father, A Son, and the
Blueprints for a Meaningful Life
by Kenny Kemp
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ISBN: 0062527635
Hardback, 114 pages
HarperSanFrancisco, 2000
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Description
On the day before
Christmas, Kenny Kemp raised his father's heavy garage door and
began cleaning out what his dad had spent 40 years filling up.
It was four months after his father's untimely death from Lou Gehrig's Disease, a painful,
troubled time in which no answers were forthcoming. Why him? Why now? Why, God?
But as Kenny worked, the answers
slowly came, carefully preserved in mayonnaise jars full of
straightened nails; hidden in overstuffed workbench drawers;
secreted in the worn tool collection; and waiting patiently in a
30-year-old piece of green plywood -- precious relics which spoke
in silent eloquence of the greatness of a man who never knew he
was.
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Awards
 Grand Prize, 1999 International Self-Published
Book Awards
Best Non-fiction Audiobook, 1999
Independent Publisher
Book Awards
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Reviews
"An astoundingly touching
memoir." --
Publisher's Weekly
"A powerful homage to unsung heroes: our fathers."
-- Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box
"Extremely well written." -- M. Scott Peck,
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