Back Country: Contemporary Writing in West Virginia - Hardcover

McKinney, Irene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0937058718 ISBN 13: 9780937058718

Verlag: West Virginia University Press, 2002

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Críticas:

"With collected works, there's always a temptation to look for the common vein. If such a thread exists, it lies in the impression, the imprint, that West Virginia has shaped. From start to finish (still the best way to read a book), this compilation holds its images; and a careful arrangement of the selections leaves the reader rocking between poetic and concrete high notes. Editor Irene McKinney, whose writing competes with all the rest, has assembled a marvelous vision of West Virginia." Cyns Nelson, The Bloomsbury Review ..".a wonderful collection." Paul Nyden, The Charleston Gazette ..".an exemplary anthology of regional writing." Appalachian Heritage

Reseña del editor:

This is as closely-knit an anthology as you are ever likely to see. It is as though a large, extended family were drawing on the same store of family stories, jokes, symbols, landscapes, animals, trees, language, and vernacular. How many snakes are in this book? How many foxes, possums? Fossils? And how very many coal mines? But it is not merely local references that unites these writers. There is a larger vision that ties these works together.

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• Verlag: West Virginia University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0937058718
• ISBN 13: 9780937058718
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 273