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The Road from Gap Creek: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood

Autor Robert Morgan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 aug 2014
One of America's most acclaimed writers returns to the land on which he has staked a literary claim to paint an indelible portrait of a family in a time of unprecedented change. In a compelling weaving of fact and fiction, Robert Morgan introduces a family's captivating story, set during World War II and the Great Depression. Driven by the uncertainties of the future, the family struggles to define itself against the vivid Appalachian landscape. The Road from Gap Creek explores modern American history through the lives of an ordinary family persevering through extraordinary times.
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ISBN-13: 9781616203788
ISBN-10: 1616203781
Pagini: 331
Dimensiuni: 140 x 208 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Shannon Ravenel Books

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Masterful Storytelling. *

One of America s most acclaimed writers returns to the land on which he has staked a literary claim to paint an indelible portrait of a family in a time of unprecedented change. In a compelling weaving of fact and fiction, Robert Morgan introduces a family s captivating story, set during World War II and the Great Depression. Driven by the uncertainties of the future, the family struggles to define itself against the vivid Appalachian landscape. The Road from Gap Creek explores modern American history through the lives of an ordinary family persevering through extraordinary times.

Morgan pens an eloquent story of stoicism and pain, endurance and courage, ending as all life will, with death and birth. A moving, lyrical saga from a time so distant, yet so near. Kirkus Reviews, starred review

This novel shines with a subtle brilliance . . . Morgan has produced another stellar novel, one with greater depth, diversity and complexity than Gap Creek. Minneapolis Star Tribune

Robert Morgan has the talent and vast empathy required to bring back the real and deliver it to us as wonderful fiction . . . In The Road from Gap Creek, he delivers another powerhouse novel of his people, with their virtues and failings, wins and losses, loves and sorrows. Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter s Bone

This book must be read for its broad, sagacious wit as well as for its power to convince us of extraordinary courage seen in ordinary life. Elizabeth Cox, author of The Ragged Way People Fall Out of Love

Unforgettable characters face the tolls of World War II and the changing of their pocket of America. *Ivan Doig, author of The Bartender s Tale

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Notă biografică

Robert Morgan is the bestselling author of numerous works of fiction-including the Oprah Book Club selection Gap Creek-and non-fiction, and is also an established poet with fourteen collections to his credit. Born in Hendersonville, NC, he teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, where he is Kappa Alpha Professor of English.