Trampoline : an illustrated novel / Robert Gipe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gipe, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls--Fiction.

Teenage girls.

Dysfunctional families--Fiction.

Dysfunctional families.

Coal mines and mining--Kentucky--Fiction.

Coal mines and mining.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dawn Jewell is fifteen. She is restless, curious, and wry. She listens to Black Flag, speaks her mind, and joins her grandmother's fight against mountaintop removal mining almost in spite of herself. "I write by ear," says Robert Gipe, and Dawn's voice is the essence of his debut novel, Trampoline. She lives in eastern Kentucky with her addict mother and her Mamaw, whose stance against the coal companies has earned her the community's ire. Jagged and honest, Trampoline is a powerful portrait of a place struggling with the economic and social forces that threaten and define it. Inspired by ora

Contents:

Act 1: Escape Velocity; 1: Driving Lesson; 2: Smother; 3: What Hurts; Act 2: Reckoning; 4:Dead Cow in the Creek; 5: Monster Birds; 6: Waterlight; Act 3: Bulldozer; 7: Hominy Heart; 8: A Thing Boils Up; 9: Ignorant Girl; Act 4: Meatspace; 10: Raccoon Eyes; 11: Fake Marshmallows; 12: Mudhole; Act 5: Silver Dagger; 13: The Mouse; 14: Governor; 15: Magic Yellow Pop Can; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8214-4524-3