Out of peel tree /Laura Long.
Long, Laura (Professor of English),
Out of peel tree /Laura Long. - First edition. - Morgantown, [West Virginia] : Vandalia Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (148 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
" 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 faces abandonment by a boyfriend. 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"-- "Literary fiction novel about generations of a family in Appalachia"--
9781940425023
Families--Appalachian Region--Fiction.
Electronic Books.
PS3612 / .O986 2014
Out of peel tree /Laura Long. - First edition. - Morgantown, [West Virginia] : Vandalia Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (148 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
" 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 faces abandonment by a boyfriend. 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"-- "Literary fiction novel about generations of a family in Appalachia"--
9781940425023
Families--Appalachian Region--Fiction.
Electronic Books.
PS3612 / .O986 2014