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The wars of heaven : short stories / by Richard Currey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Currey, Richard, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- Fiction--Collections.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (101 p.)
- Edition:
- Anniversary ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Fe : Santa Fe Writers Project, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Wars of Heaven, Richard Currey focuses his poetic imagination on the lives of the working class in West Virginia-a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed-depicting an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won dignity. Like Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio," Currey speaks of a rural life with power and tenderness, giving us a lyric rendering of times and places now largely gone. The stirring clarity of people and landscape persists in the reader's imagination.
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Tyler's Ballad; Old Fires; Believer's Flood; Jackson Stillwell; Rock of Ages; The Wars of Heaven; The Love of a Good Woman
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin & S. Lawrence, 1990.
- ISBN:
- 0-9882252-0-4
- OCLC:
- 818816823
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