Richard Currey (1)
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- Gangbare naam
- Currey, Richard
- Geslacht
- male
- Woonplaatsen
- Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA (birthplace)
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- 5
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- 213
- Populariteit
- #104,444
- Waardering
- 3.7
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- 44
- ISBNs
- 37
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- 6
The Publisher Says: The lives of the working class in West Virginia—a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed—are explored in this powerful yet tender collection of six short stories and a novella. They depict an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won dignity and are a lyrical rendering of times and places now largely gone—but the stirring clarity of people and landscape can persist in the reader's imagination.
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My Review: The novella "The Love of a Good Woman" reminds me of Flannery O'Connor's Southern Gothics. All of the stories are set in West Virginia, so should we call it "Appalachian Gothic" just to be clear? You're missing a trick if you don't procure one for yourself because it's rich, involving prose that tells really honest stories about people's real lives...love, family, the curdled joy of intimacy all get their inversions here. There's something very Lewis Nordan, in his Wolf Whistle mode, about the whole collection. Recommended.… (meer)