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The Mountains Won't Remember Us - by Robert Morgan (Paperback)

The Mountains Won't Remember Us - by  Robert Morgan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This collection of stories describe the struggle of the people who settled the Blue Ridge Mountains as they undergo the transition from plowshares to bulldozers.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the bestselling author of <i>Gap Creek, </i> comes a breathtaking collection of stories about the lives and history of the settlers of the Blue Ridge Mountains.</b> <p/> Struggling to survive in an ancient mountain landscape that alternately thwarts their efforts and infuses them with joy and vitality, the strong-limbed and strong-willed people of the Blue Ridge Mountains undergo the transition from ploughshares to bulldozers -- from the Indian skirmishes of the post-Revoluationary War era to the trailer parks of the present day. In these eleven first-person narratives, Morgan visits the themes that matter to all people in all places: birth and death, love and loss, joy and sorrow, the necessity for remembrance and the inevitability of forgetting. <br> This is a moving tribute to that which is universal and eternal -- the majestic immutability of the earth and the heroic human struggle to live, love, and create new life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Richmond Times-Dispatch</i> Morgan's stories are filled with love, kindness, and a wonderful sense of place.<br><br><i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i> Always, Mr. Morgan writes with beauty and precision. And readers will leave this book with much to ponder.<br><br>Asheville Citizen-Times Robert Morgan tunes the twangy talk of the mountains into stories that sweetly sing of the universal range of human emotion, from love to hate, doubts to perseverance....[He] has chiseled and sweated out hard-won stories that won't be readily forgotten by any reader.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>An accomplished novelist and poet, <b>Robert Morgan</b> has won the James B. Hanes Poetry Prize, the North Carolina Award in Literature, and the Jacaranda Review Fiction Prize. His short stories have appeared in <i>Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards</i> and <i>New Stories from the South, </i> and his novel <i>The Truest Pleasure</i> was a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. He is a professor of English at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York

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