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Out of the mountains : Appalachian stories / Meredith Sue Willis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willis, Meredith Sue.
- Series:
- Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia.
- Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- City and town life--Fiction.
- City and town life.
- Mountain life--Fiction.
- Mountain life.
- Appalachian Region--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Appalachian Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (181 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Meredith Sue Willis's Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities. Willis's stories explore the complex negotiations between longtime natives of the region and its newcomers and the rifts that develop within families over current issues such as mountaintop removal and homophobia. Always, however, the situations depicted in these stories are explored in the service of
- Contents:
- Triangulation
- Pie knob
- Big boss is back
- On the road with C.T. Savage
- Tara White
- Speak well of the dead
- Nineteen sixty-nine
- Evenings with Dotson
- The little harlots
- Scandalous Roy critchfield
- Fellowship of kindred minds
- Elvissa and the Rabbi.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9780821443316
- 0821443313
- OCLC:
- 889675492
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