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Author
Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
156 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The residents of The Sound of Holding Your Breath could be neighbors, sharing the same familiar landscapes of twenty-first-century Appalachia--lake and forest, bridge and church, cemetery and garden, diner and hair salon. They could be your neighbors--average, workaday, each struggling with secrets and losses, entrenched in navigating the complex requirements of family in all its forms. Yet tragedy and violence challenge these unassuming lives: A...
Author
Publisher
Swallow Press/Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Goshen Road is a portrait of one working-class family over two decades in rural West Virginia, with sisters Dessie and Billie Price as its urgently beating heart. Bonnie Proudfoot captures them, their husbands, and their children as they balance on the divide between Appalachia old and new, struggling for survival and reconciling themselves with past hurts and future uncertainties as the economy and culture shift around them. The story opens in 1967...
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