The Marble Orchard
Автор: Alex Taylor
Год издания: 0000
Set in rural Appalachia (Kentucky), the book should have strong regional appeal Fans of writers like Donald Ray Pollock and Daniel Woodrell and Bonnie Jo Campbell should dig this book.Blurbs to come from Donald Ray Pollock, Glen Taylor and Michael Knight.Alex's debut short story collection was well-reviewed, and The Marble Orchard is a big stepping stone in the career of this rising young writer.Alex's writing has already won several awards, including Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing, the Barry Hannah Prize for Fiction, and the Eric Hoffer Award in General Fiction.
At the Edge of the Orchard
Автор: Tracy Chevalier
Год издания:
'A wonderful book; rich, evocative, original. I loved it' Joanne Harris“One in ten trees comes up sweet…”In the inhospitable Black Swamp of Ohio, the Goodenough family are barely scratching out a living. Life there is harsh, tempered only by the apples they grow for eating and for the cider that dulls their pain. Hot-headed Sadie and buttoned-up James are a poor match, and Robert and his sister Martha can only watch helplessly as their parents tear each other apart. One particularly vicious fight sends Robert out alone across America, far from his sister, to seek his fortune among the mighty redwoods and sequoias of Gold Rush California. But even across a continent, he can feel the pull of family loyalties…
The Little Dog Trusty; The Orange Man; and the Cherry Orchard; Being the Tenth Part of Early Lessons (1801)
