Author: Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813185491
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Mary Ann Taylor-Hall's highly acclaimed first novel, Come and Go, Molly Snow, introduces us to Carrie Marie Mullins, a gifted Kentucky bluegrass fiddler and singer in the Hawktown Road band. After moving to Lexington to develop her talents, Carrie becomes infatuated with the band's leader, Cap Dunlap. Her romantic distraction prevents Carrie from saving her five-year-old daughter, Molly, when she careens down the driveway and is killed by a truck. Overwhelmed with grief, Carrie breaks down. Cap finds Carrie in this state of distress and takes her to Ona and Ruth Barkley, two elderly sisters living in an old farmhouse. It is on the sisters' farm that Carrie is able to slowly come to terms with her heartache and guilt over Molly's death. As she picks up the pieces of her shattered life, Carrie draws on the two women's friendship, her inner strength, and finally, the healing power of music.
Author: Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
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ISBN: 9783203835044
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 303
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Author: Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
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ISBN:
Category : Bildungsromane
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Anne McCracken
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing
ISBN: 9781568385563
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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A Broken Heart Still Beats Softcover
Author: Jeff Worley
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813173515
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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What Comes Down To Us features twenty-five of Kentucky’s most accomplished contemporary poets. Together they serve to illustrate the diversity and richness of poetry being written today in the Commonwealth. The poems were collected by Jeff Worley, a poet who has lived in Kentucky for more than two decades. Although the subject matter of the poems transcends the state’s borders, the collection communicates a strong sense of Kentucky as a place. Worley’s introduction places contemporary Kentucky poetry in the context of the state’s rich literary tradition, and the poet biographies include their reflections and, often, their poetic approach and technique.
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Publisher: Hallmark Cards, Inc.
ISBN: 9781595301376
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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On Christmas Eve residents of Antarctic Springs put on a big show to tell everyone that the South Pole is a jolly place to be at Christmastime.
Author: Joy Dickinson
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806520926
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Includes information on John Berendt, Wendell Berry, Rick Bragg, James Lee Burke, Olive Ann Burns, Truman Capote, Kate Chopin, Andrei Codrescu, Pat Conroy, Vicki Covington, Dave Robicheaux, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Fannie Flagg, Shelby Foote, Forrest Gump, John Grisham, Allan Gurganus, Alex Haley, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Hiaasen, Zora Neale Hurston, Jan Karon, Jack Kerouac, Harper Lee, Nancy Lemann, Bobbie Ann Mason, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery OʼConnor, Walker Percy, Edgfar Allan Poe, Reynolds Price, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Rhett Butler, Anne Rice, Carl Sandburg, Scarlett OʼHara, Anne Rivers Siddons, Lee Smith, John Kennedy Toole, Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams Thomas Wolfe, Tom Wolfe, etc.
Author: Morris Allen Grubbs
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813190198
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Winner of the 2001 Ray and Pat Browne National Book Award for Outstanding Textbook, given by the Popular Culture Association From Ken Burns's documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A&E's Biography series to CNN, television has become the primary source for historical information for tens of millions of Americans today. Why has television become such a respected authority? What falsehoods enter our collective memory as truths? How is one to know what is real and what is imagined -- or ignored -- by producers, directors, or writers? Gary Edgerton and Peter Rollins have collected a group of essays that answer these and many other questions. The contributors examine the full spectrum of historical genres, but also institutions such as the History Channel and production histories of such series as The Jack Benny Show, which ran for fifteen years. The authors explore the tensions between popular history and professional history, and the tendency of some academics to declare the past "off limits" to nonscholars. Several of them point to the tendency for television histories to embed current concerns and priorities within the past, as in such popular shows as Quantum Leap and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. The result is an insightful portrayal of the power television possesses to influence our culture.
Author: Fenton Johnson
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813166616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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Having taken great risks—to immigrate to America, to take monastic vows—Bengali physician Meena Chatterjee and Brother Flavian are each seeking safety and security when they encounter Johnny Faye, a Vietnam vet, free spirit, and expert marijuana farmer. Amid the fields and forests of a Trappist monastery, Johnny Faye patiently cultivates Meena's and Flavian's capacity for faith, transforming all they thought they knew about duty and desire. In turn they offer him an experience of civilization other than war and chaos. But Johnny Faye's law-breaking sets him against a district attorney for whom the law is a tool for ambition rather than justice. Their confrontation leads to a harrowing reckoning that ensnares Dr. Chatterjee and Brother Flavian, who must make a life-or-death choice between an act of justice that may precipitate their ruin or a betrayal that offers salvation. Inspired by the real-life state police kidnapping and murder of a legendary storyteller and petty criminal, The Man Who Loved Birds engages pressing contemporary issues through a timeless narrative of ill-fated romance. Celebrated author Fenton Johnson has woven a seamless, haunting fable exploring the eternal conflicts between free will and destiny, politics and nature, the power of law and the power of love.
Author: Crystal Wilkinson
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813166934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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A lyrical exploration of love and loss, this book centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern Black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarrassment over mental illness and illegitimacy. Meanwhile, single mother Francine Clark is haunted by her dead, lightning-struck husband and forced to fight against both the moral judgment of the community and her own rebellious daughter, Mona. The residents of Opulence struggle with vexing relationships to the land, to one another, and to their own sexuality. As the members of the youngest generation watch their mothers and grandmothers pass away, they live with the fear of going mad themselves and must fight to survive. The author offers up Opulence and its people in lush, poetic detail. It is a world of magic, conjuring, signs, and spells, but also of harsh realities that only love - and love that's handed down - can conquer.
