Ring of Earth: Stories - Couverture souple

Woolfitt, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1956440593 ISBN 13 : 9781956440591

Editeur : Madville Publishing LLC, 2023

Synopsis

Humankind confronts its fraught relationship with the natural world in the stories of Ring of Earth, where William Woolfitt traces the history of survival and resistance in his home region of Appalachia. Woolfitt's characters find ways to reclaim, repossess, and re-sacralize what's been taken from them, to reckon with the destruction of their environments, cultures, homes, and bodies. "The Sinks of Gandy" is based on historical accounts of a woman who shot one of the last eastern elks near Spruce Knob in the 1830s; in "Fire Season," a dying father watches through his window the red spruce forests burning. Clay eaters, orphans, child miners, immigrant laborers, and the victims of illegal sterilizations are among the survivors in Ring of Earth who bear witness to our broken land as they search for the hope and the mystery that might still be "running and running ben-eath the shell of the earth."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

William Woolfitt's fiction chapbook, The Boy with Fire in His Mouth (2014), won the Epiphany Editions contest judged by Darin Strauss. He has also written several books of poems, including Spring Up Everlasting (Mercer University Press, 2020). His short stories and essays have been published in Tin House, Best Small Fictions, The Cincinnati Review, Appalachian Review, Epoch, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. After growing up in West Virginia, Woolfitt relocated to another part of Appalachia-Cleveland, Tennessee, where he lives with his family and teaches college writing classes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Madville Publishing LLC
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1956440593
• ISBN 13: 9781956440591
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
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• Personne responsable: non disponible