Wellspring / Janice Holt Giles ; with a foreword by Wade Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giles, Janice Holt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kentucky--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Kentucky.

Manners and customs.

Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 262 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2002.

Summary:

"If you are already a committed Janice Holt Giles reader, in Wellspring you will be re-visiting familiar and hospitable territory. If you are a new reader, this book will be a solid introduction to the matter, manner, and scope -- the wellsprings -- of an important American writer. . . . It is, indeed, a treasure box into which Janice Holt Giles has stored shining bits and pieces of her life and career." -- from the foreword by Wade Hall

The nineteen selections that make up Wellspring, Janice Holt Giles's last published book before her death in 1979, are a microcosm of her large world. She brings together fiction, nonfiction, autobiography and fictionalized autobiography, revealing behind-the-scenes looks at her life, her family, her love for her adopted state of Kentucky and its people, her politics, her favorite authors, her thoughts on writing, and her views of her own work.

Long out of print, Wellspring is available again for old and new readers of Janice Holt Giles.

Contents:

Rhythm in writing

Kinta: The edge of the world ; The picnic ; The gift

Kentucky: The minor miracle ; Kentucky ; Wilderness road ; According to his lights ; When the 'lectric come to the ridge ; Tetch 'n take ; Dear sir

Spout Springs: Adios, Miss Em ; Step by step ; We built a log house ; Country music ; We point with pride ; Write me a river ; Run me a river

L'Envoi.

ISBN:

0813190258

0813122392

OCLC:

49678311