A Taste Of The Sweet Apple: A Memoir (Woodford Reserve Series for Kentucky Literature) - Softcover

Watson, Jo Anna Holt

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ISBN 10: 1932511083 ISBN 13: 9781932511086

Verlag: Sarabande Books, 2004

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Book by HoltWatson Jo Anna

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In this memoir of small-county life, where emphasis is on character essential to the ethics of community, a young girl of robust curiosity keeps company with the spells her people cast. At the center of the book is a poetic and telling bond, and adoring friendship between this small white girl and a black foreman, Joe Collins. There's a tempestuous country-physician father, a beautiful powerful mother in powerless times, and the "wonderfully long-winded" Aunt Tott. We witness the travail of hired laborers as well as the beauties of craft and devotion in Holt Watson's rendering of traditional tobacco culture.
A seven-year-old girl may set her buckteeth on fire or bite her pony, but never misses the silent rush of spring water deep within the greenest land, a land from which she, too, springs. Brimming with unsentimental innocence and the sensuality of furs, tobacco, and her mother's lemon lily beds, she draws a tough-minded, tomboy-accomplished portrait of a girlhood.

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• Verlag: Sarabande Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1932511083
• ISBN 13: 9781932511086
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232