Hunter's Horn

Arnow, Harriette Simpson

ISBN 10: 087013437X / ISBN 13: 9780870134371

Published by Michigan State Univ. Press, East Lansing, MI, 1997

About this Item

8vo, 371 pp., Complete original text with an introduction by Sandra L. Ballard. Seller Inventory # 101031

Bibliographic Details

Title: Hunter's Horn

Publisher: Michigan State Univ. Press, East Lansing, MI

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: softcover

Condition: Fine copy

Edition: 1st.

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Synopsis:

Michigan State University Press is proud to announce the re-release of Harriette Simpson Arnow's 1949 novel Hunter's Horn, a work that Joyce Carol Oates called "our most unpretentious American masterpiece."  
     In Hunter's Horn, Arnow has written the quintessential account of Kentucky hill people―the quintessential novel of Southern Appalachian farmers, foxhunters, foxhounds, women, and children. New York Times reviewer Hirschel Brickell declared that Arnow "writes...as effortlessly as a bird sings, and the warmth, beauty, the sadness and the ache of life itself are not even once absent from her pages."  
     Arnow writes about Kentucky in the way that William Faulkner writes about Mississippi, that Flannery O'Connor writes about Georgia, or that Willa Cather writes about Nebraska―with studied realism, with landscapes and characters that take on mythic proportions, with humor, and with memorable and remarkable attention to details of the human heart that motivate literature.

About the Author:

Harriette Simpson Arnow (1908–1986) was born in Kentucky and later moved to Detroit. Arnow is among the foremost chroniclers of Appalachian life and the great postwar migration north.