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Upheaval : stories / Chris Holbrook.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holbrook, Chris.
- Series:
- Kentucky voices.
- Kentucky voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- Kentucky--Fiction.
- Kentucky.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (163 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1995, Chris Holbrook burst onto the southern literary scene with Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia, stories that Robert Morgan described as ""elegies for land and lives disappearing under mudslides from strip mines and new trailer parks and highways."" Now, with the publication of Upheaval, Holbrook more than answers the promise of that auspicious debut. In eight interrelated stories set in Eastern Kentucky, Holbrook again captures a region and its people as they struggle in the face of poverty, isolation, change, and the devastation of land and resources at the hands of the
- Contents:
- Somebody known
- Christmas down home
- All the ills
- New-used
- Upheaval
- Something to tell
- Done and finished
- The timber deal.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-3929-5
- 1-282-93748-0
- 9786612937484
- 0-8131-7350-7
- OCLC:
- 502429945
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