Fall Line - Couverture rigide

Starnes, Joe Samuel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1588382656 ISBN 13 : 9781588382658

Editeur : NewSouth, Incorporated, 2011

Synopsis

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Best of the South" Selection

December 1, 1955: Flood gates are poised to slam shut on a concrete dam straddling the Oogasula River, creating a lake that will submerge a forgotten crossroads and thousands of acres of woodlands in rural Georgia. The novel unfolds in one day's action as viewed through the eyes of Elmer Blizzard, a troubled ex-deputy; Mrs. McNulty, a lonely widow who refuses to leave her doomed shack by the river; her loyal, aging dog, Percy; and a rapacious politician, State Senator Aubrey Terrell, for whom the new lake is named. A story of land grabs, loss, wounded families, bitterness, hypocrisy, violence, and revenge in the changing South, Fall Line is populated by complex characters who want to do the right thing but don't know how. Joe Samuel Starnes's novel is a memorable, beautiful, and heartbreaking tale of a backwater hamlet's damaged people and its transformed landscape.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

JOE SAMUEL STARNES is the coauthor of Leth Oun's memoir, A Refugee's American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service and three critically acclaimed novels. His most recent novel is Red Dirt: A Tennis Novel. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and various magazines, as well as essays, short stories, and poems in literary journals. He was awarded a fellowship to the 2006 Sewanee Writers Conference.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: NewSouth, Incorporated
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1588382656
• ISBN 13: 9781588382658
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible