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 Gap Creek
by Robert Morgan
Announced on January 18, 2000
About the Book
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turns poetic and gritty, Robert Morgan's Gap Creek is a stunning
follow-up to his critically acclaimed novel, The Truest Pleasure.
Widely regarded as the poet laureate of Appalachia, Morgan captures
the spirit of this wilderness territory he knows so well.
As the New
York Times Book Review said, "Morgan is among the relatively
few American writers who write about work knowledgeably, and as
if it really matters… You begin to feel, as you sometimes do
when reading Cormac McCarthy's or Harry Crew's early novels, that
the author has been typing with blood on his hands and a good deal
of it has rubbed off onto your shirtsleeves… His stripped-down
and almost primitive sentences burn with the raw, lonesome pathos
of Hank Williams' best songs."
A must for
fans of Cold Mountain, Gap Creek is an Appalachian story.
It is also the story of a marriage — the story of a couple's
first year. Julie and Hank can't keep their eyes off each other
when they move to Gap Creek, just across the South Carolina line
from their homes near Flat Rock, North Carolina. In Gap Creek they
must forge a relationship while being tested by every imaginable
act of God.
In the end
it takes a flood é an apocalyptic, hell-bent water that nearly kills
them both é to right their world and help them discover the survivors
and the lovers within.
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