Memory's Keep - Couverture rigide

Kibler, James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 158980371X ISBN 13 : 9781589803718

Editeur : Pelican Publishing Co, 2006

Synopsis

"James Kibler makes no bones about it. Memory's Keep is an all-out, full-hearted, sentimental paean to the golden days that were, or might have been, or surely should have been. Anyone who likes the smell of newly turned April dirt, of green fields simmering in summer heat, of freshly planed walnut, will love every page of this fondly authored book." --Fred Chappell, author of I Am One of You Forever

"Kibler has developed a theme that has long defined both Southern history and literature: the deep, metaphysical connection between the Southern character and temperament and the natural world." --Walter Sullivan

" In James Everett Kibler we find a member of a quickly diminishing breed: the man of letters." --Randall K. Ivey in Southern Partisan

Written in the loose style of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales or Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Memory's Keep is a nostalgic and bittersweet flashback, revealing the formative experiences of Trig Trigsely, the unforgettable curmudgeon at the center of Walking Toward Home, Kibler's first novel in his Clay Bank County trilogy . Kibler is known for his lyrical and poignant tales of Southern agrarianism and his critical examinations of the modern world. Memory's Keep explores these themes in the story of Mister Pink Suber, whose five children have moved away after the death of his wife. Alone, he goes on tending his land and livestock while mentoring his young neighbor and friend, Trig Trigsely, in the ways of farming and life. It is his deep love for the land and the sensibilities of Celtic imagination that inform us in Kibler's writing, gently and accurately revealing the Agragrian vision.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

James Everett Kibler is a professor of English at the University of Georgia. Born and raised in upcountry South Carolina, Kibler spends much of his spare time tending to the renovation of an 1804 plantation home and the reforestation of the surrounding acreage. The history and saga of this house is chronicled in his critically acclaimed Our Fathers' Fields: A Southern Story, for which he was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction. Kibler divides his time between Whitmire, South Carolina, and Athens, Georgia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pelican Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 158980371X
• ISBN 13: 9781589803718
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible