In Stone Man Mountain, a multigenerational saga brimming with character and incident, Annabel Thomas explores struggles of truly epic proportions: between city and country, modernization and tradition, love and power, violence and creativity. When, in 1910, York Mende's grandmother moves him from the hills of southeastern Ohio to a town in the flatlands, the boy is glad to leave his Appalachian heritage behind. Raised on Horatio Alger stories and tales of his cunning politician grandfather, York comes to enjoy city life ...
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In Stone Man Mountain, a multigenerational saga brimming with character and incident, Annabel Thomas explores struggles of truly epic proportions: between city and country, modernization and tradition, love and power, violence and creativity. When, in 1910, York Mende's grandmother moves him from the hills of southeastern Ohio to a town in the flatlands, the boy is glad to leave his Appalachian heritage behind. Raised on Horatio Alger stories and tales of his cunning politician grandfather, York comes to enjoy city life while studying veterinary medicine and reigning as a star athlete at the university. From time to time, he must return to the hill country to look after his inherited property, but he is careful to avoid being snagged by any mountain girl-especially Dissa Marie Lovett, who plainly sees him as a means to getting herself out of the hills. When Dissa finally does escape, she rejoices, but eventually she realizes that she has left not only the Appalachians but also her identity and her moral and spiritual framework. It is Dissa's artist daughter, Rohanna, who returns to the hills. Crippled physically and emotionally by a friend's betrayal, she is drawn to Tavis Clendennin, a schoolteacher and blacksmith, who shows her how strip mining is destroying the land. When the mysterious murders of local children remind Rohanna of her own past traumas, she withdraws into herself, afraid to trust anyone. Only gradually, in learning how to turn her agrarian roots into art, does Rohanna find meaning for her life and a way to live in the company of others. Spanning forty years and set against a richly textured background, Stone Man Mountain is a thoroughly engrossing novel that combines narrative power, an unwavering command of voice and dialect, and remakable insight into human frailties and strengths. The Author: Annabel Thomas is the author of Blood Feud, The Phototropic Woman, and Knucklebones. She is a native of Columbus, Ohio, with family ties to the Appalachian foothills.
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Good in Good jacket. BZ2-A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in very good-condition. No additional printings are indicated on the back of the title page. A tight, clean, sound copy in white paper covered boards with red lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, front endpaper, and title page plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A novel about the simmering feud between two clans that has its beginnings in the Civil War and the rivalries between Anglo-Saxon and Celt. By the author of "The Photographic Woman" and Knucklebones." 193p.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Small stamp on top corner on front endpaper. Pages clean and tight. Small crease on front dustwrapper flap. Otherwise nice condition. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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As New in As New jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. As New cream hardcover with red titling to spine in New DJ. No marks. Very tiny puncture to front gutter near middle, else New condition.
