Research Catalog

Title

Degrees of elevation : short stories of contemporary Appalachia / edited by Charles Dodd White & Page Seay.

Publication

Huron, Ohio : Bottom Dog Press, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Seay, Page.
• White, Charles Dodd, 1976-

Description

183 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Hard, brilliant, and dark as coal, this brand new and necessary volume captures Appalachia today, a place where the old bedrock verities of family, community, belief, work, and the earth intself are all in painful "Upheaval"--to use the title of Chris Holbrook's story herein. From manic to elegiac to rough, raw, beautiful, and heartbreaking, these sotries will strike the reader as both absolutely true and as unforgettable, like the high pure ring of an ax on a cold winter morning, vibating across distance, hanging in the air long afterword.--Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls--Cover.

Series Statement

• Appalachian writing series
• Working lives series

Uniform Title

• Appalachian writing series.
• Working lives series (Huron, Ohio)

Subject

• Appalachian Region > Fiction
• Short stories, American > Appalachian Region

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Fictional literature.
• Short stories
• Short stories.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Horseweed / by Chris Offutt -- Into the gorge / by Ron Rash -- Holler / by Crystal Wilkinson -- Magic / by Jim Nichols -- Country boys / by Rusty Barnes -- Snapshot '87 / by Sheldon Lee Compton -- Proof / by John McManus -- The beauties of this Earth / by Mark Powell -- Casting out / by Denton Loving -- Mary, the cleaning lady / by Scott McClanahan -- Gravity / by Jarrid Deaton -- Worth / by Valerie Nieman -- Bait / by Richard Hague -- The coal thief / by Alex Taylor -- Real good man / by Mindy Beth Miller -- Upheaval / by Chris Holbrook -- Total immersion / by Silas House.

ISBN

• 9781933964393 (pbk.)
• 1933964391 (pbk.)

OCLC

679919618

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library