โ Chris Offutt; Valerie Nieman; Chris Holbrook; Silas House; Crystal Wilkinson; Ru
๐ Fiction
๐
2011
๐ Bottom Dog Press
๐ English
โ 149 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Degrees of elevation : short stories of contemporary Appalachia
โ Scribed by Charles Dodd White; Page Seay
- Publisher
- Bottom Dog Press
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 145 KB
- Series
- Working Lives; Appalachian Writing
- Edition
- Retail
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1933964391
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
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The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food--and each...
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