Alien Bootlegger (Conversation Pieces, Band 9) - Softcover

Ore, Rebecca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933500018 ISBN 13: 9781933500010

Verlag: Aqueduct Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

In Franklin County, when times get tough, people often to turn to bootlegging. But that’s a perilous way to make a living, since bootlegging is both illegal and tightly regulated by distributors like Dennis DeSpain. So when the mysterious and scary alien who calls himself "Turk" openly sets up as an independent operator, flouting both the law and the distributors, all hell breaks loose. In it up to their necks and pursuing their own agendas are: ex-activist Lilly, the alien’s lawyer; Berenice, an aging ’60s radical with a past; Orris, DeSpain’s smart, ambitious wife who believes in doing whatever it takes to achieve the objective; and DeSpain’s ex-lover Marie, a chemical-engineering student who loves working with machines and whose grandmother was a midwife, bootlegger in the Forties, and notorious for having killed a man.

"Every writer worth admiring has her place of power: that locale or perspective from which she does her best and most assured work. For Rebecca Ore, it’s the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia. Though she has lived much of her life elsewhere, the land and its people are in her bones and the rhythm of their speech lodged in her head. It’s not an easy place to love, and she returns to it always with a certain degree of pain and regret. But it’s the forge and wellspring of Alien Bootlegger.

"The Blue Ridge area is a region of stunning beauty where guns are common, old wealth holds to traditional values (‘like owning people,’ as Rebecca enjoys explaining), and operating an illegal still is not so much disreputable as a matter of cultural pride." —from the Introduction by Michael Swanwick

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Rebecca Ore was born in Louisville, KY, out of people from Kentucky and Virginia, Irish Catholic and French Protestant turned Southern Baptist on her mother’s side and Welsh and Borderer on her father’s. She grew up in South Carolina and fell in love with New York City from a distance, moved there in 1968 and lived on the Upper West Side and Lower East Side for seven years. Somehow, she also attended Columbia University School of General Studies while spending most of her energy in the St. Mark’s Poetry Project. In 1975, she moved to San Francisco for almost a year, then moved to Virginia, back and forth several places for several years, finished a Masters in English, then moved to rural Virginia for ten years, writing sf novels and living in her grandparent’s house after they died. Next came a small house in Philadelphia with a walled garden. She’s been mostly an academic gypsy and has been variously an editorial assistant for the ¬Science Fiction Book Club, a reporter/photographer for the Patrick County Enterprise, and a landscape gardener. She left Philadelphia after 12 years and ended up in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC, for a time. She is currently retired and living in Nicaragua.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Aqueduct Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1933500018
• ISBN 13: 9781933500010
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140
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