The Road from Gap Creek

The Road from Gap Creek - Paperback

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The Road from Gap Creek - Paperback

The Road from Gap Creek - Paperback

by Robert Morgan
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One of America's most acclaimed writers returns to the land on which he has staked a literary claim to paint an indelible portrait of a family in a time of unprecedented change. In a compelling weaving of fact and fiction, Robert Morgan introduces a family's captivating story, set during World War II and the Great Depression. Driven by the uncertainties of the future, the family struggles to define itself against the vivid Appalachian landscape. The Road from Gap Creek explores modern American history through the lives of an ordinary family persevering through extraordinary times.

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"Masterful Storytelling."*

One of America's most acclaimed writers returns to the land on which he has staked a literary claim to paint an indelible portrait of a family in a time of unprecedented change. In a compelling weaving of fact and fiction, Robert Morgan introduces a family's captivating story, set during World War II and the Great Depression. Driven by the uncertainties of the future, the family struggles to define itself against the vivid Appalachian landscape. The Road from Gap Creek explores modern American history through the lives of an ordinary family persevering through extraordinary times.

"Morgan pens an eloquent story of stoicism and pain, endurance and courage, ending as all life will, with death and birth. A moving, lyrical saga from a time so distant, yet so near." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"This novel shines with a subtle brilliance . . . Morgan has produced another stellar novel, one with greater depth, diversity and complexity than Gap Creek." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Robert Morgan has the talent and vast empathy required to bring back the real and deliver it to us as wonderful fiction . . . In The Road from Gap Creek, he delivers another powerhouse novel of his people, with their virtues and failings, wins and losses, loves and sorrows." --Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone

"This book must be read for its broad, sagacious wit as well as for its power to convince us of extraordinary courage seen in ordinary life." --Elizabeth Cox, author of The Ragged Way People Fall Out of Love

"Unforgettable characters face the tolls of World War II and the changing of their pocket of America." --*Ivan Doig, author of The Bartender's Tale
ISBN9781616203788
Author Robert Morgan
PublisherAlgonquin Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2014
LanguageENG- English
Pages352
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan is the author of several books of poems, most recently Terroir (2011) and Dark Energy (2015). He has published a dozen works of fiction, including the New York Times bestseller Gap Creek (1999). Among his nonfiction books are the national bestseller Boone: A Biography (2007) and Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe (2023). He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A native of western North Carolina, he is currently Kappa Alpha Professor of English (Emeritus) at Cornell University.Randall Wilhelm is a writer, editor, and researcher who lives in Clemson, South Carolina. He is editor of Uplands: Selected Stories of Robert Morgan, Conversations with Robert Morgan, Summoning the Dead: Essays on Ron Rash, and The Ron Rash Reader.

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