Gap Creek: A Novel - Softcover

Morgan, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616201762 ISBN 13: 9781616201760

Verlag: Algonquin Books, 2012

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Páginas: 370 Géneros: 12:FA:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) 12:FV:Historical fiction Sinopsis: A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club PickYoung Julie Harmon works 'hard as a man,' they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better.But Julie and Hank's new life in the valley, in the last years of the nineteenth century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Sometimes it's hard to tell what to fear most-the fires and floods or the flesh-and-blood grifters, drunks, and busybodies who insinuate themselves into their new life. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. Their struggles with nature, with work, with the changing century, and with the disappointments and triumphs of their union make Gap Creek a timeless story of a marriage._,

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"Morgan . . . shows what it was like to be human in a time and place now far removed from modern America. He creates living, breathing souls who, as transparent as their dreams and fears may seem today, demand to be taken seriously."
--The Orlando Sentinel

"His stripped-down and almost primitive sentences burn with the raw, lonesome pathos of Hank Williams's best songs."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Gripping storytelling, indelible sense of time and place . . . Morgan turns the stories of prosaic lives into page-turners." --The Raleigh News and Observer

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A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club Pick

Young Julie Harmon works “hard as a man,” they say, so hard that at times she’s not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better.

But Julie and Hank’s new life in the valley, in the last years of the nineteenth century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what to fear most—the fires and floods or the flesh-and-blood grifters, drunks, and busybodies who insinuate themselves into their new life. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. Their struggles with nature, with work, with the changing century, and with the disappointments and triumphs of their union make Gap Creek a timeless story of a marriage.

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• Verlag: Algonquin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1616201762
• ISBN 13: 9781616201760
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368