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001 2013042728
003 DLC
005 20140710081857.0
008 131202s2014 wvu s000 1 eng
010 $a 2013042728
020 $a9781940425009 (softcover)
020 $a194042500X (softcover)
020 $z9781940425016 (epub)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-usa--
050 00 $aPS3612.O538$bO98 2014
082 00 $a813/.6$223
084 $aFIC000000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aLong, Laura$c(Professor of English)
245 10 $aOut of peel tree /$cLaura Long.
264 1 $aMorgantown :$bWest Virginia University Press,$c2014.
300 $a148 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Moving through time and space, Out of Peel Tree unfolds the patterns of an Appalachian sensibility that reverberate everywhere: a fatalism balanced by humor and flinty, hard-won hope, an appreciation for the surprises of the everyday, and a search for love and home amid strange and familiar places and people. This innovative debut novel reveals the lives of a far-flung contemporary Appalachian family through a web of delicate turning points. A child discovers a grandmother she never knew has died. A runaway teen faces abandonment by a boyfriend. A man on parole falls hopelessly in love with a shoplifter. A woman receives a letter about her husband's other wife. An old woman confronts a burglar with the help of her ghost-husband. United by a connection to their matriarch, these characters search at home and beyond to make a fresh sense of their changing lives. As a novel in stories, Out of Peel Tree brings a new lyricism to the page and a new voice to American and Appalachian literature-a voice deeply inflected by the beauty of the natural world and by working-class grit"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Literary fiction novel about generations of a family in Appalachia"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aFamilies$zAppalachian Region$vFiction.
655 0 $aDomestic fiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / General.$2bisacsh