Fall Line ***AUTHOR SIGNED***

Starnes, Joe Samuel

ISBN 10: 1588382656 / ISBN 13: 9781588382658

Published by NewSouth Books, Montgomery, AL, USA, 2011

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AUTHOR SIGNATURE ONLY ON TITLE PAGE. No edition or print number stated. Mild wear overall. No bumps, creases, tears or stains. Mylar-protected. Not price clipped, remaindered or library withdrawn. Shipped padded on a box with tracking number provided on domestic shipping.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fall Line ***AUTHOR SIGNED***
• Publisher: NewSouth Books, Montgomery, AL, USA
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1588382656
• ISBN 13: 9781588382658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Collectible Fiction
  • Signed

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Synopsis

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Best of the South" Selection

December 1, 1955: Flood gates are poised to slam shut on a concrete dam straddling the Oogasula River, creating a lake that will submerge a forgotten crossroads and thousands of acres of woodlands in rural Georgia. The novel unfolds in one day's action as viewed through the eyes of Elmer Blizzard, a troubled ex-deputy; Mrs. McNulty, a lonely widow who refuses to leave her doomed shack by the river; her loyal, aging dog, Percy; and a rapacious politician, State Senator Aubrey Terrell, for whom the new lake is named. A story of land grabs, loss, wounded families, bitterness, hypocrisy, violence, and revenge in the changing South, Fall Line is populated by complex characters who want to do the right thing but don't know how. Joe Samuel Starnes's novel is a memorable, beautiful, and heartbreaking tale of a backwater hamlet's damaged people and its transformed landscape.

About the Author

Joe Samuel Starnes is a native of Alabama who grew up in Georgia and has lived in New Jersey and Philadelphia for the past decade. His first novel, Calling, was published in 2005, and his journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and various magazines. He has also published essays, short stories, and poems in literary journals. A graduate of the University of Georgia and Rutgers University in Newark, he was awarded a fellowship to the 2006 Sewanee Writer's Conference. Starnes lives in Haddown Township, N.J., near Philadelphia.