The Mountains Won't Remember Us: and Other Stories - Softcover

Morgan, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743204212 ISBN 13: 9780743204217

Publisher: Touchstone, 2000

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of Gap Creek, comes a breathtaking collection of stories about the lives and history of the settlers of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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.
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.

About this title

From the Author:

An accomplished novelist and poet, Robert Morgan 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 Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and New Stories from the South, and his novel The Truest Pleasure 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.

From the Back Cover:

Celestine Sibley's writing celebrates life. With grace and sensitivity, she weaves her magic in this month-by-month look at life as seen from her log home in Sweet Apple, Georgia. FOR ALL SEASON is filled with facts, tales, and love.

About this edition

• Publisher: Touchstone
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0743204212
• ISBN 13: 9780743204217
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256