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James Still : a life /

James Still (1906--2001) first achieved national recognition in the 1930s as a poet, and he remains one of the most beloved and important writers in Appalachian literature. Though he is best known for the seminal novel River of Earth -- which Time magazine called a "work of art" and which...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boggess, Carol (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 A Place to Begin; 2 Old Enough to Go Traipsing; 3 The Model Scout; 4 Working His Way; 5 Mentors, Friends, and Patron; 6 The Scholar's Tale; 7 A Practical Degree; 8 "19-Dirty-one"; 9 To the Jumping-off Place; 10 Hindman Becomes a Haven; 11 Beyond the Hills, 1935-1940; 12 A Man Singing to Himself; 13 Jolly in a Courting Mood; 14 Joining Up and Shipping Out; 15 Somewhere in Africa; 16 Coming Home Again; PHOTOGRAPHS; 17 On Dead Mare Branch; 18 Back to Hindman; 19 Family Loss and Brotherly Love; 20 On to Morehead; 21 Then-what Days.
  • 22 Making Friends and Keeping Them23 Pattern of a Writer in Pursuit of Publication; 24 Still the Explorer, 1972-1990; 25 Jolly and Godey; 26 Jim Wayne and Anson; 27 At Home in This World; 28 Invitation to the Eternal; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.