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At fourteen, Cassie Wolphe’s way of life in Appalachia is being changed by the influx of modernity/postmodernity. She is in love with Jake McCollum, believes she will marry him and constructs her life around this central act, but like her brother, Ben, Jake rejects a life he believes offers nothing but hard work and poverty. Forced to make a decision between her love of Jake and her love of the mountains, Cassie finds she can't leave, a choice which may define her life forever. At once lyrical, emotionally charged, moving and heartbreaking, Oreads is a literary treat that will keep you compelled right to the very last page and beyond.
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A lyrical coming of age novel, Oreads is a bittersweet journey depicted so vividly that readers see the fog on the mountains, smell the ripening corn, and feel the conflicted passions of characters who cannot escape and yet can't go home again. A work to savior.
Susan Hubbard, author of seven book of fiction including Season of Risks, Blue Money (Janet Heldinger Kafka Prize) and "Walking on Ice" (AWP Short Fiction Prize). Her stories have appeared in TriQuarterly, The Mississippi Review, Ploughshares, and several other journals. She is a professor of English at the University if Central Florida.
John Lavelle is one savvy, insightful, and fearless writer. The world of Oreads is far more vivid, chilling, and compelling than the one you're living in. Trust me. Lavelle's Vietnam-era northern Appalachia is a forbidding landscape of shatter lives and broken dreams where a desperate woman gets one last chance to save herself and her children. This is nightmare material of the first order, at once exhilarating and profoundly disturbing. It'll leave you breathless.
John Dufresne, author of two short story collections The Way the Water Enters Stone and Johnny Too Bad and the novels Louisiana Power and Light, Love Warps the Mind a Little, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year, Deep in the Shade of Paradise, and Requim Mass. His books on writing The Lie that Tells the Truth and Is Life Like This? are used in many university writing programs. He is the editor of the anthology Blue Christmas. His short stories have twice been named Best American Mystery Stories, in 2007 and 2010. His play Trailerville was produced at the Blue Heron Theater in New York in 2005.
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At once lyrical, emotionally charged, moving and heartbreaking, Oreads is a literary treat that will keep you compelled right to the very last page and beyond.
". . . a bittersweet journey depicted so vividly that readers see the fog on the mountains. . . . a work to savior." Susan Hubbard author of The Season of Risks, Blue Money, (Janet Heldinger Kafka Prize) and "Walking on Ice" (AWP Short Story Prize)
". . . material of the first order . . . exhilarating and profoundly disturbing. It'll leave you breathless." John Dufresne author of Louisiana Power and Light and Love Warps the Mind a Little
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- PublisherRoundfire Books
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1785351834
- ISBN 13 9781785351839
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages344
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Oreads (FINE COPY OF SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
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Roundfire Books, Alresford, Hampshire, 2016
ISBN 10: 1785351834
ISBN 13: 9781785351839
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. First edition, First Printing. Fine. First edition, first printing. Paperback. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, JOHN F LAVELLE, without dedication or inscription on title-page. (viii),332pp. A fictional novel set in the Appalachiian Mountains, USA in the 1960s. A lyrical coming-of-age novel, a bittersweet journey depicted so vividly that readers see the fog on the mountains, smell the ripening corn, and feel the conflicted passions of the characters. A fine copy of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 17346
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