Farewell, I'm bound to leave you / Fred Chappell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chappell, Fred, 1936-2024.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Storytellers--Fiction.

Storytellers.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

228 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Picador USA edition.

Other Title:

Farewell, I am bound to leave you

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador USA, 1996.

Summary:

Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You begins in a room made cool by the approach of death, where an old woman and her grieving daughter are saying good-bye in silent, urgent conversation. In the next room, Jess Kirkman waits with his father, remembering the tales his grandmother and mother have passed down - an inheritance rich in language and music and imaginative teaching, told by women to a young man who will one day find such wisdom needful. Each tale builds and weaves in a counterplay as intricate as that of fiddle and banjo. Jess recalls "The Fisherwoman", "The Traveling Woman", "The Feistiest Woman", "The Silent Woman", "The Wind Woman", and others, in a range of ghost to detective to comic to love stories. As he tells, he comes to understand the special knowledge of the women and the place that made him: a mountain land where myth becomes history, language makes song, and time seems to pause at a certain point at dusk, when the moon casts deeper shadows than the sun.

ISBN:

0312146000

OCLC:

34583998