Out of Peel Tree Paperback / softback
by Laura Long
Paperback / softback
Description
Moving through time and space, Out of Peel Tree unfolds the patterns of an Appalachian sensibility that reverberate everywhere: a fatalism balanced by humor and flinty, hard-won hope, an appreciation for the surprises of the everyday, and a search for love and home amid strange and familiar places and people. This innovative debut novel reveals the lives of a far-flung contemporary Appalachian family through a web of delicate turning points.
A child discovers a grandmother she never knew has died.
A runaway teen schemes to start a new life in Texas.
A man on parole falls hopelessly in love with a shoplifter.
A woman receives a letter about her husband's other wife.
An old woman confronts a burglar with the help of her ghost-husband. United by a connection to their matriarch, these characters search at home and beyond to make a fresh sense of their changing lives.
As a novel in stories, Out of Peel Tree brings a new lyricism to the page and a new voice to American and Appalachian literature - a voice deeply inflected by the beauty of the natural world and by working-class grit.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:140 pages
- Publisher:West Virginia University Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781940425009
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:140 pages
- Publisher:West Virginia University Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781940425009
