The Distance from Slaughter County: Lessons from Flyover Country - Couverture souple

Moore, Steven

 
9781469673950: The Distance from Slaughter County: Lessons from Flyover Country
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1469673959 ISBN 13 : 9781469673950
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2023

Synopsis

As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond. In those travels, he's seen what place can mean, specifically rural places, and how it follows us, changes us. What Moore has to say about rural places speaks to anyone who has driven a lonely road at night, with nothing but darkness as a cushion between them and the emptiness that surrounds. Place and how we define it--and how it defines us--is a through line throughout the collection of eleven essays. Moore writes about where we come from and the disconnection we often feel between each other: between veterans and nonveterans, between people of different political beliefs, between regions, between eras. These pieces build into a contemplative whole, one that is a powerful meditation on why where we come from means something and how we'll always bring where we are with us, no matter where we go.

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À propos de l?auteur

Steven Moore is the author of The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier, which won the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction. He's been published in multiple journals, including Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, and more.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469673959
ISBN 13 
9781469673950
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
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