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Author : M. Glenn Taylor
language : en
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Release Date : 2023
The Songs Of Betty Baach written by M. Glenn Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
"Some called her the Everywhen Woman. She claimed to be 321 years of age. In 2038, after the big storm and the great flood and the bad times, Betty Baach wrote these words down and sometimes spoke them aloud, at her homeplace on Freon Hill. She referred to them as songs. All stories are songs, she'd always say. Set in West Virginia, The Songs of Betty Baach is a magical guide to resisting despair and a compendium of wisdom and rhythms by which to fortify oneself. The lives of the Baaches of Keystone and the Knoxes of Mosestown twist and connect in a tale of survival and retribution that crosses three centuries-moving from Betty's girlhood in colonial America to a future warped by environmental collapse and political unrest. Refusing the erasure of the lives of women, Indigenous peoples, and Black people who have always called this region home, this eloquent and distinctive novel is a necessary remedy for the continued distortion of a land and its inhabitants"--
The Songs Of Betty Baach
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Author : Glenn Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Juniper Prize for Fiction
Release Date : 2023
The Songs Of Betty Baach written by Glenn Taylor and has been published by Juniper Prize for Fiction this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Fiction categories.
Some called her the Everywhen Woman. She claimed to be 321 years of age. In 2038, after the big storm and the great flood and the bad times, Betty Baach wrote these words down and sometimes spoke them aloud, at her homeplace on Freon Hill. She referred to them as songs. All stories are songs, she'd always say. Set in West Virginia, The Songs of Betty Baach is a magical guide to resisting despair and a compendium of wisdom and rhythms by which to fortify oneself. The lives of the Baaches of Keystone and the Knoxes of Mosestown twist and connect in a tale of survival and retribution that crosses three centuries--moving from Betty's girlhood in colonial America to a future warped by environmental collapse and political unrest. Refusing the erasure of the lives of women, Indigenous peoples, and Black people who have always called this region home, this eloquent and distinctive novel is a necessary remedy for the continued distortion of a land and its inhabitants.
A Hanging At Cinder Bottom A Novel
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Author : Glenn Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Tin House Books
Release Date : 2015-07-13
A Hanging At Cinder Bottom A Novel written by Glenn Taylor and has been published by Tin House Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-13 with Fiction categories.
Stylish historical fiction in the tradition of True Grit and Carter Beats the Devil, A Hanging at Cinder Bottom is an epic novel of exile and retribution, a heist tale and a love story both. The year is 1910. Halley’s Comet has just signaled the end of the world, and Jack Johnson has knocked out the “Great White Hope,” Jim Jeffries. Keystone, West Virginia, is the region’s biggest boomtown, and on a rainy Sunday morning in August, its townspeople are gathered in a red-light district known as Cinder Bottom to witness the first public hanging in over a decade. Abe Baach and Goldie Toothman are at the gallows, awaiting their execution. He’s Keystone’s most famous poker player; she’s the madam of its most infamous brothel. Abe split town seven years prior under suspicion of armed robbery and murder, and has been playing cards up and down the coast, hustling under a variety of pseudonyms, ever since. But when he returns to Keystone to reunite with Goldie and to set the past right, he finds a brother dead and his father’s saloon in shambles—and suspects the same men might be responsible for both. Only then, in facing his family’s past, does the real swindle begin. Glenn Taylor, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, has a unique voice that breathes life into history and a prose style that snaps with lyricism and comedy.
A Hanging At Cinder Bottom
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Author : Glenn Taylor
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2016-01-22
A Hanging At Cinder Bottom written by Glenn Taylor and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-22 with Fiction categories.
Stylish historical fiction in the tradition of True Grit and Carter Beats the Devil, A Hanging at Cinder Bottom is an epic novel of exile and retribution, a heist tale and a love story both. The year is 1910. Halley’s Comet has just signaled the end of the world, and Jack Johnson has knocked out the “Great White Hope,” Jim Jeffries. Keystone, West Virginia, is the region’s biggest boomtown, and on a rainy Sunday morning in August, its townspeople are gathered in a red-light district known as Cinder Bottom to witness the first public hanging in over a decade. Abe Baach and Goldie Toothman are at the gallows, awaiting their execution. He’s Keystone’s most famous poker player; she’s the madam of its most infamous brothel. Abe split town seven years prior under suspicion of armed robbery and murder, and has been playing cards up and down the coast, hustling under a variety of pseudonyms, ever since. But when he returns to Keystone to reunite with Goldie and to set the past right, he finds a brother dead and his father’s saloon in shambles—and suspects the same men might be responsible for both. Only then, in facing his family’s past, does the real swindle begin. Glenn Taylor, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, has a unique voice that breathes life into history and a prose style that snaps with lyricism and comedy.
Unfollowers
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Author : Leigh Ann Ruggiero
language : en
Publisher: Juniper Prize for Fiction
Release Date : 2022-03-25
Unfollowers written by Leigh Ann Ruggiero and has been published by Juniper Prize for Fiction this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-25 with Fiction categories.
Barb Matheson doesn't fit in: not on the Standing Rock Reservation where her mother was born; not at the mission in rural Ethiopia where she grew up; and certainly not at the Pennsylvania church where her husband preaches. Expansive and lyrical, Unfollowers is a tale of religious angst, unrequited love, and the upheaval of racial and economic privilege. Equally adrift on both sides of the Atlantic, Barb must negotiate the distance between white America and Africa, between the spirituality of her ancestors and the straight tones of evangelicalism, and between rules and grace. When a former lover crashes her daughter's third birthday party, she's offered the chance to find her way home to Ethiopia, leaving her to choose between a rote life in America and an improvised life abroad.
The Marrowbone Marble Company
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Author : M. Glenn Taylor
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2011-03-03
The Marrowbone Marble Company written by M. Glenn Taylor and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-03 with Fiction categories.
A powerful novel of love and war, righteousness and redemption, and the triumph of the human spirit.
Smiling In The Darkness
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Author : Adelaide Freitas
language : en
Publisher: Bellis Azorica
Release Date : 2020
Smiling In The Darkness written by Adelaide Freitas and has been published by Bellis Azorica this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Fiction categories.
Many people of Portuguese descent take pride in claiming that the word saudade is untranslatable. In reality, we come close with a melding of bittersweet nostalgia, bone--deep longing, and an endless yearning for what one can never have again--or indeed may never have had. Adelaide Freitas dipped her pen in saudade to tell of family separation and bonds that never loosen. In her authentic Azorean voice, she recounts the immigrant experience and centrifugal impulses that force people apart in spite of their desperation to cling to one another. In their sensitive rendering, the translators have captured the nuances of Freitas's novel Smiling in the Darkness, with special care for those who have her native language in their heritage and heartfelt saudade for its loss.
The Ballad Of Trenchmouth Taggart
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Author : M. Glenn Taylor
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2010-01-07
The Ballad Of Trenchmouth Taggart written by M. Glenn Taylor and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-07 with Fiction categories.
There’s little room in this world for a moral man
Stardust Media
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Author : Christina Pugh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Stardust Media written by Christina Pugh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Poetry categories.
Christina Pugh's fifth book of poems explores the technologies both ancient and new that inhabit our contemporary cultural moment. Mapping an uncanny journey through the clusters of media we encounter daily but seldom stop to contemplate, Pugh's focused descriptions, contrasting linguistic textures, and acute poetic music become multifarious sources of beauty, disruption, humor, and hurt. Here, Netflix and YouTube share space with eighteenth-century paintings, Italian graffiti, ballet, Kurt Cobain's recordings, and even a collection of rocks. Whether technology is a vessel for joy or grief in these poems, it is always an expression of our continuing desire to invent and to mediate. At once personal archive and cultural barometer, Stardust Media traces the moving constellations of life in the distant twenty-first century, "a kaleidoscope / . . . half-filled with sky-blue glass-cut blossoming, / then labored to crystallize."
Eden Brazil
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Author : Moacyr Scliar
language : en
Publisher: Brazilian Literature in Transl
Release Date : 2019
Eden Brazil written by Moacyr Scliar and has been published by Brazilian Literature in Transl this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Fiction categories.
Eden-Brazil is an ecotourism destination and nature reserve in a stunning swath of beach-lined, coastal rainforest. Inspired by the paradisiacal setting and the idea of providing visitors with the ultimate return to nature, they decide to stage the biblical story of the Garden of Eden, complete with Adam, Eve, the snake, the apple, the works. However, re-creating an earthly paradise as something beyond a roadside attraction is no easy feat. In this charming, tragicomic tale of compromised environmentalism, Moacyr Scliar employs his signature humor and talent for crisp storytelling while weaving together a playfully serious parable of environmentalist ideals that clash with the realities of local politics, global consumer culture, and competing visions of authentic nature.