[PDF] Look Back All The Green Valley eBook

Author : Fred Chappell
Publisher : Picador
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466860529

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The last in the Kirkman family cycle by one of our most treasured writers In Look Back All the Green Valley, Jess Kirkman returns to the North Carolina mountain town of his boyhood to be with his ailing mother and finally settle the family's accounts after the death of his father ten years ago. Cleaning out his father's secret work room reunites him with the irrepressible Joe Kirkman and leads him to make new discoveries--in the dusty room he finds an unusual machine made of stovepipe and ceramic, and a handwritten map. These clues lead him to uncover a part of his father's history he never knew. Rich in the story telling traditions of Southern Appalachia, Fred Chappell's magical novel celebrates a way of life that has passed. Look Back All the Green Valley follows Chappell's three previous novels--Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You, Brighten the Corner Where You Are, and I'm Am One of You Forever--and concludes one of the most rewarding cycles of novels in recent memory.

Author : Matthew Joseph Bruccoli
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 2000-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780787625214

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Updates entries already published and supplements the Dictionary of Literary Biography series with entries on newly prominent writers.

Author : John Lang
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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The last quarter-century has seen a remarkable outpouring of fiction and poetry from southern Appalachia-a surge of creativity that has formed an integral part of a larger, and still growing, regional self-consciousness. This book charts the course of this literary renaissance through twenty-one interviews with contemporary Appalachian writers, conversations conducted between 1983 and 2003 at Emory & Henry College's annual literary festival and originally printed in the Iron Mountain Review. The authors interviewed range from nationally known figures such as Fred Chappell, Robert Morgan, Lee Smith, Mary Lee Settle, and Charles Wright to less prominent, though no less gifted, writers like George Ella Lyon, Jo Carson, and George Scarborough. Many of the interviewers are themselves creative writers or Appalachian studies scholars, as well as longtime friends of the interviewees. For example, Jim Wayne Miller interviews James Still; Loyal Jones interviews Jim Wayne Miller; Richard Marius interviews Wilma Dykeman; George Garrett interviews David Huddle; and Michael Chitwood interviews Michael McFee. These wide-ranging conversations address such topics as formative experiences in the author's childhood, major literary influences, the author's educational background and mentors, the writing process, the limitations imposed by such labels as “Appalachian writer,” and the broadening scope of literature originating in the Appalachian region. Collectively, these interviews confirm the judgment of some observers that writers from the mountain South are now playing a much larger role in southern letters than in previous periods, thus constituting a “renaissance within a renaissance.”

Author : Scot Peacock
Publisher : Contemporary Authors
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 2002-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780787645939

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Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors(R).