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Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This complete collection of short fiction by Caroline Gordon captures the nuances of life in the American South, focusing on traditions, social habits and the land itself. Caroline Gordon(1895-1981) was the author of nine novels, two short story collections, and two works of criticism. She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a winner of the O. Henry Award.Her Collected Stories was aNew York Times Notable Book of the Year.
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Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Tucker, a young veteran, returns from the Korean war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don't have much, they have the love of their home and each other. But when his family is threatened, Tucker is pushed into violence, which changes everything. The story of people living off the land and by their wits in a backwoods Kentucky world of shine-runners and laborers whose social codes are every bit as...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The long journey of an American song, passed down from generation to generation, bridging a nation’s fraught disconnect between history and warped illusion, revealing the country’s ever evolving self. MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME, from its enormous success in the early 1850s, written by a white man, considered the father of American music, about a Black man being sold downriver, performed for decades by white men in blackface, and the song, an anthem...
Author
Series
Publisher
Shoemaker & Hoard
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 2005, That Distant Land brings together twenty-three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book is not an anthology so much as it is a coherent temporal mapping of this landscape over time, revealing Berry's mastery of decades of the life lived alongside this clutch of interrelated characters bound by affection and followed over generations. This volume combines the stories found...
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