WEEDEATER
Gipe Robert
Oprawa:
TWARDA
Wydawca:
Ohio University Press
Data premiery:
2018-03-12
ISBN:
9780821423097
Opis produktu
strongRobert Gipe/strong lives in Harlan Kentucky and grew up in Kingsport Tennessee. His fiction has appeared in Appalachian Heritage Still Motif/ and Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel./Weedeater/ picks up six years after the end of Robert Gipes first novel Trampoline/ and continues the story of the people of Canard County Kentucky living through the last hurrah of the coal industry and battling with opioid abuse.emWeedeater/em is a contemporary story of love and loss told by a pair of eastern Kentucky mountaineers. Gene is a lovelorn lawnman who bears witness to the misadventures of a family entangled in drugs artmaking and politics a family beset by environmental and selfdestruction. And a young mother Dawn Jewell is at the center of the family. She spends the pages of emWeedeater/em searchingfor lost family members lost youth lost community and lost heart. emWeedeater/em is a story about how we put our lives back together when we lose the things we thought we couldnt bear losing how we find new purpose in what we thought were scraps and trash caught in the weeds. :br/br/ :emWeedeater/em picks up six years after the end of Robert Gipes first novel emTrampoline/em and continues the story of the people of Canard County Kentucky. In emWeedeater/em the reader finds Canard County living through the last hurrah of the coal industry and the most turbulent and deadly phase of the communitys battle with opioid abuse. The events it chronicles are frantic but its voice is by turns taciturn and angry filled with humor and stoic grace./Robert Gipe is the real deal: a genuine storyteller a writer of wit and style wisdom and heart. His characters are as alive as anybody I know and his sentences jump off the page. I find myself reading them out loud to whoevers handy and saying śThis is how its done.ŁWhen [Gipes] prose is coupled with his cartoonlike drawings in which the characters tend to stare directly at the reader the effect is similar to watching a documentary film. This strategy imbues his work with a kind of realism that is not quite traditional fiction and not quite a graphic novel but engrossing nonetheless. His characters come cross as absolutely real simultaneously funny and heartbreaking.ŁWeedeater/ is about how to go on when your heart is broken. With a style worthy of Ray Hicks author Robert Gipe makes his characters Dawn and Gene stare straight at you and tell what they have to tell. It is impossible to turn away from them. Their compelling tale of current Appalachia told through true and vital language and with great compassion is necessary reading for everyone.ŁThe dialogue with its distinct Appalachian dialect charges Gipes illustrated story of a tightknit community in coal country in which people struggle to make ends meet raise families maintain friendships and survive the opioid epidemic. The many cartoons add emotional complexitData Publikacji: 2018-03-12
Wymiary: 229 mm 152 mm
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