The Marrowbone Marble Company - by Glenn Taylor (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>M. Glenn Taylor s plain spoken eloquence on labor, race, and war recalls the voices in Studs Terkel s inspired Working." The Marrowbone Marble Company "is a novel of stirring clarity and power. Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Lark and Termite"Author M. Glenn Taylor was nominated for the National Book Critic s Circle Award for his novel The" Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart. "Taylor returns spectacularly with The Marrowbone Marble Company, "a sweeping story set against the changing landscape of post-World War II America that recalls The Story of Edgar Sawtelle "and the early lyrical work of Cormac McCarthy. A masterwork of Southern fiction that the National Book Award-winning author of Spartina," John "Casey, calls, a terrific rough-and-tumble novel, The Marrowbone Marble Company "is a gift from a truly exhilarating American voice."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"M. Glenn Taylor's plain spoken eloquence on labor, race, and war recalls the voices in Studs Terkel's inspired <i>Working</i>. <i>The Marrowbone Marble Company </i>is a novel of stirring clarity and power."<br />--Jayne Anne Phillips, author of <i>Lark and Termite</i></p> </p>Author M. Glenn Taylor was nominated for the National Book Critic's Circle Award for his novel <i>The</i> <i>Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart. </i>Taylor returns spectacularly with <i>The Marrowbone Marble Company, </i>a sweeping story set against the changing landscape of post-World War II America that recalls <i>The Story of Edgar Sawtelle </i>and the early lyrical work of Cormac McCarthy. A masterwork of Southern fiction that the National Book Award-winning author of <i>Spartina</i>, John<i> </i>Casey, calls, "a terrific rough-and-tumble novel," <i>The Marrowbone Marble Company </i>is a gift from a truly exhilarating American voice.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>1941. Loyal Ledford works the swing shift at the Mann Glass factory in Huntington, West Virginia. He courts Rachel, the boss's daughter, a company nurse with coal black hair. But when Pearl Harbor is attacked, Ledford, like so many young men of his time, sets his life on a new course.</p><p>Upon his return from service in the war, Ledford starts a family with Rachel but chafes under the authority at Mann Glass. He is a lost man, disconnected from the present and haunted by his violent past, until he meets his cousins the Bonecutter brothers. Their land, mysterious, elemental Marrowbone Cut, calls to Ledford, and it is there that The Marrowbone Marble Company is slowly forged. Over the next two decades, the factory grounds become a vanguard of the civil rights movement and a home for those intent on change. Such a home inevitably invites trouble, and Ledford must fight for his family.</p><p>Returning to the West Virginia territory of his critically acclaimed novel, <em>The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart</em>, Glenn Taylor recounts the transformative journey of a man and his community. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Taylor has created a remarkably complex, soulful, and provocative historical novel righteous in its perspective on America's struggle to live up to its core beliefs."--<em>Booklist </em><strong>(starred review)</strong><br><br>"Taylor's socially astute and fast-moving sophomore novel is earthy, authentic, and a testament to his literary talent."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em> <strong>(starred review)</strong><br><br>"Captivating . . . . A rich stew, one well-worth savoring."--<em>Denver Post</em><br><br>"Taylor fluidly composes a portrait of a man whose sheer fortitude makes molehills out of mountains...powerful prose...a big, ambitious book that falls somewhere between the sweeping epics of Richard Russo and the masculine bravado of Ken Kesey's best work."--<em>Kirkus Reviews</em><br><br>"A beautifully realized novel...Central among [the characters] is Loyal Ledford himself. A renegade who rejects the precast American Dream for something more elusive, perhaps even unattainable, this scarred, flawed man embodies a familiar component of our national character: hope."--Bookpage<br><br>"A novel of stirring clarity and power [that] speaks unforgettably from a half century ago to issues still unresolved in American life. Taylor has composed a hymn to the human heart."--Jayne Anne Phillips, author of LARK AND TERMITE<br><br>"A terrific rough-and-tumble novel. It's set in West Virginia, which may be the last state in the US where whole-hearted goodness, violence, hard work and hard ways are all just a breath apart. Glenn Taylor gets it all in--both in sharp detail and in bold broad strokes."--John Casey, National Book Award-winning author of SPARTINA<br><br>"THE MARROWBONE MARBLE COMPANY is a novel about one man's mountaintop idealism, but written in so earthy and sweat-streaked a way that it never runs out of oxygen."--Christian Science Monitor<br>
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