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Chinaberry
Celebrated as the "Dean of Appalachian Literature," James Still has won the appreciation of audiences in Appalachia and beyond for more than seventy years. The author of the classics River of Earth (1940) and The Wolfpen Poems (1986), Still is known for his careful prose construction and for the poetry of his meticulous, rhythmic style. Upon his death, however, one manuscript remained unpublished. Still's friends, family, and fellow writer Silas House will now deliver this story to readers, having assembled and refined the manuscript to prepare it for publication. Chinaberry, named for the ran.
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- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1020711
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007080
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/760650962#Topic/migrant_labor
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/760650962#Topic/literature
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107175
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/760650962#Topic/fiction_general
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/760650962#Topic/man_woman_relationships
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107969
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/760650962#Topic/fiction
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- "A classic story of adolescence by the late Still (19062001; River of Earth) pursues migrant workers from Alabama to an East Texas ranch. The 13-year-old narrator has accompanied his father's friend, Ernest, and two young men to Texas looking for work; the barefoot boy is small for his age, and as they pass through an East Texas town, he attracts the attention of a wealthy farmer, Anson Winters, who invites the four of them back to his Chinaberry ranch to stay and work for the summer. Anson lost his son several years before and has not gotten over it; also a widower, he has remarried the lovely Lurie, though in three years of marriage they still have no children of their own. The narrator is installed in Anson and Lurie's bedroom and otherwise spoiled, evidence of Anson's transference of affection to the boy, while Lurie intimates that she and the boy are mere substitutes."
- "Celebrated as the "Dean of Appalachian Literature," James Still has won the appreciation of audiences in Appalachia and beyond for more than seventy years. The author of the classics River of Earth (1940) and The Wolfpen Poems (1986), Still is known for his careful prose construction and for the poetry of his meticulous, rhythmic style. Upon his death, however, one manuscript remained unpublished. Still's friends, family, and fellow writer Silas House will now deliver this story to readers, having assembled and refined the manuscript to prepare it for publication. Chinaberry, named for the ran."@en
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- "Chinaberry"@en
- "Chinaberry"