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Love these stories of Appalachia, gritty and real.
An exceptional collection of some of the most talented writers of contemporary Appalachia.
Top fiction from a region of writers and storytellers. Charles Dodd White and Page Seay do an excellent job of bringing the world of Appalachia today to the front. Fine writers include Silas House, Chris Holbrook, Ron Rash, and others. Highly recommended.
Great writers all the way around. I'm lucky to have had a chance to read their stories.
Contemporary Appalachia.Gritty, raw, at times riveting. Truly a patchwork of short stories, 16 authors offering up a mix of beauty, truth, despair, drugs and everyday life. Rating this book is unfair to some of the writers; some were outstanding, some average, some too mediocre. Overall, three stars average.A few of the stories were so pure Appalachia, which I read this book for. Others could have taken place in Any Town, USA.Degrees of Elevation.Personally, that describes the varying degrees of...
I'm impressed, but biased too.
I wanted this book for so long and I finally got a copy. Really good Appalachian stories. Great authors included in this anthology—some of my favorites.
This collection had a few stories I really loved and lots that were so so. The underlying themes were poverty, depravation, and violence. I wish I could be more positive about the collection, but I honestly could not recommend it to anyone and I was just glad to finish!
Quotable:I knew about Tallboy’s group therapy. I knew he’d met his girlfriend, Chelsea, there. Miss Mattie said it wasn’t helping him none to sit around with people as bad off in the head as he was.Anger management classes after the divorce had taught him only one thing – everybody was angry at something, just some more than others. But it was always something, and usually that something was small at first before it caught fire enough to burn entire towns, entire families, into heaps of ash. By
A bit uneven. some of the stories were good while some were just so-so.
Wonderful collection by some of the best writers in this country.
We picked this set of short stories to read in our local bookclub because we had previous read longer works by Ron Rash, Chris Offet, and Silas House -- also, it is fun to mix in a set of short stories once a year, to mix up the discussion group a little bit. I don't know how to describe the set of stories other than saying, in most of them, it is more like a glimpse of life than the full story. You jump right in and then the door is shut before you know what's happening. All of us felt like we
Started reading this collection and realized I'd read it before but had never posted a review (sorry Charles!). Some of the writers I was already familiar with: Rusty Barnes, Chris Offutt, Scott McClanahan, Ron Rash, and John McManus, and it was great to see their stories represented here. Others were new to me and that is the great benefit of a collection such as this: to find kindred spirits to writers you already enjoy. So this collection introduced me to: Sheldon Lee Compton, Alex Taylor, Ch...
There are some wonderful stories by many authors I didn't know. Short stories are not popular, but this is definitely a collection worth reading. I don't think literature from this geographical area of the US gets the attention it deserves.
