| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (148 pages) |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Literary fiction novel about generations of a family in Appalachia"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Families -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- General.
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Appalachian Region. (OCoLC)fst01240092
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Long, Laura (Professor of English), author. Out of peel tree. First edition 9781940425009 (DLC) 2013042728 (OCoLC)860757695 |
| ISBN |
9781940425023 (electronic bk.) |
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1940425026 (electronic bk.) |
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