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The Blue Valley

Autor Robert Morgan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2000
From Civil War prison camps to contemporary trailer parks, these thirteen memorable tales of life in the Southern Appalachians come alive with an array of intriguing characters -- male and female, young and elderly, learned and unlearned. The separate passions and dreams of these individuals mirror the larger cultural and historical dramas of American life, revealing the strengthening and loosening of the strong bonds of families over generations.
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ISBN-13: 9780743204224
ISBN-10: 0743204220
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 134 x 204 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Touchstone Books

Notă biografică

An accomplished novelist and poet, Robert Morgan has won the James B. Hanes Poetry Prize, the North Carolina Award in Literature, and the Jacaranda Review Fiction Prize. His short stories have appeared in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and New Stories from the South, and his novel The Truest Pleasure was a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. He is a professor of English at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

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From Civil War prison camps to contemporary trailer parks, these thirteen memorable tales of life in the Southern Appalachians come alive with an array of intriguing characters -- male and female, young and elderly, learned and unlearned. The separate passions and dreams of these individuals mirror the larger cultural and historical dramas of American life, revealing the strengthening and loosening of the strong bonds of families over generations.


Descriere

This debut collection of short stories charts a course through the North Carolina mountains, revealing the strong bonds of Southern families.

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Contents

A Brightness New and Welcoming

Pisgah

1916 Flood

Crossties

War Story

Let No Man

Family Land

The Lost State of Franklin

Tailgunner

The Half Nelson

Night Thoughts

The Pickup

Blinding Daylight