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"Grim and raw and hilarious."—The New York Times
During the night of a storm, an Appalachian girl delivers a baby and disappears. Next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home. While Turner carries out his quest, the child's father, Truman, with "teeth as rotten as his soul," drives his battered car along the same paths.
Leon Rooke is a novelist, short story writer, editor, and critic. He has published twenty-eight books, nearly three hundred short stories, and is the recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature.
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Leon Rooke is a novelist, short story writer, playwright, editor and critic. He was born in rural North Carolina, but has been a resident of Canada for many years. He has published 28 books, and nearly 300 short stories have been published. Over the course of his career, Leon Rooke has been writer-in-residence at numerous North American universities, including the University of Victoria, Southwest Minnesota State University and the University of Toronto. Rooke is also the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including the Canada-Australia Literary Prize (1981), the Governor General's Award for English Language Fiction for Shakespeare´s Dog (1985), and the North Carolina Award for Literature (1990).
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"Rooke is one of the great post-Faulkner southern prose stylists ... who breaks the rules, makes up new rules, fractures and twists the story form with breathtaking aplomb, while communicating a generosity of spirit and 'joie de vivre' that is endlessly attractive."—GLOBE & MAIL
"A master ... every word in [A Good Baby] becomes something other-than-it was."—WASHINGTON POST
"Rooke has written a story in which everything is done, told and thought in an exuberant white heat ... a backwoods Valhalla in which everyone is a god, demigod or devil, with larger-than-life passions and idiosyncrasies."—LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Grim and raw and hilarious."—THE NEW YORK TIMES
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0679729399
- ISBN 13 9780679729396
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages297
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