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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Eighth Day Books.
Touchstone, October 2000. Paper Back Paper Back. New. When Robert Morgan writes a story he also makes a poem. His books convey (we quote The American Heritage Dictionary's definition of poem) ''a vivid and imaginative sense of experience characterized by the use of condensed language chosen for its sound and suggestive power as well as its meaning.'' Born and raised in the mountains of North Carolina, Morgan takes for his palette the earth and sky colors of the Appalachian high country. His characters are fire -- oranges and reds that blaze and feed on whatever life brings -- love, grief, anger, passion, joy. In the Welsh tradition of his ancestors, Morgan's voice carries a song, lean though never lacking. We illustrate (quoting Ginny in The Truest Pleasure): ''I took a long deep drink from the whiskey jug and set in the silence as though it was a cool bath on a hot day. Silence is the language of God, I thought. He prefers to speak to us that way, and through our own voices. I wanted to wait a while longer and study about things. I might not be able to think this clear again for a long time. I wanted to figure it out a little more, to see if there was some way I could understand what had happened to me. What did it come to?'' To answer Ginny's question, we quote Morgan again (from Gap Creek): '''Can you walk?' Hank said. 'Of course I can walk,' I said. I felt as weak as a newborn colt but my strength was coming back as my stomach settledaWe started walking again.'' Winner of the Southern Book critics Circle Award for fiction, Gap Creek first gained international attention when it was featured as an Oprah's Book Club selection. It tells the story of Julie Harmon and Hank Richards' first year of marriage in the last year of the twentieth century. Amidst the complexity of the modern world's encroachment on their inherently rural way of life (sustained by hard work and more hard work), Julie and Hank live at the brink of losing it all and gaining themselves.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Free State Books.
Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man" they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her. She is just a teenager when her brother dies in her arms. The following year, she marries Hank and moves to Gap Creek. Julie and Hank discover that the modern world is complex, grinding ever on without pause or concern for their hard work. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. Turtleback, Label: Demco Media, Demco Media, Product group: Book, Published: 2000-10, Studio: Demco Media, Sales rank: 16951189.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Ruth Reaser.
gift able- Very clean copy- interiors clean – unmarked – just lightly read covers glossy wonderful condition- spine is not creased--Gap Creek Robert Morgan Oversized paperback paperback fiction first Scribner paperback edition 2000 second printing – published by arrangement with Agonquin books of Chapel Hill –design by Annie Winslow cover photo graphic stock author photo by Dede hatch- Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man" they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her. She is just a teenager when her brother dies in her arms. The following year, she marries Hank and moves down into the valley. Julie and Hank discover that the modern world is complex, grinding ever on without pause or concern for their hard work. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay.-see pictures maybe this will do it! - make an informed buying decision-At least you know what you're getting into I have-good description-- All photos shown are actual pictures no stock images. What you see is what you will receive. I photograph hand enter & research every book listed-Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa,Los Angeles I carefully pack your book-, your books wrapped,not co-mingled,you get the copy you were viewing carefully packed to protect it from damage in transit.- Gap Creek: The Story Of A Marriage Oprah's Book Club Scribner paperback fiction Author Robert Morgan Edition reprint Publisher Simon and Schuster, 2000 ISBN 0743203631, 9780743203630 Length 336 pages Subjects appalachian region southern married women young women fiction / General / Historical Fiction / Literary-3010 bmk24Gap Creek.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, book_bank.
An Oprah's Book Club Selection An unflinching tale of turn-of-the-century Appalachian life, "Gap Creek" chronicles the challenging first year in the marriage of Julie Harmon and Hank Richards. After losing both her father and brother before turning 17, Julie faces fire, flood, grifters, sickness, and starvation with grim determination and remarkable stamina. By capturing the earthy details of rural life, including raw, riveting accounts of everything from hog slaughtering to childbirth, Robert Morgan weaves the human and the heroic that coexist in every individual. There is a most unusual woman living in Gap Creek. Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. She is just a teenager when her little brother dies in her arms. That same year she marries and moves down into the valley where floods and fire and visions visit themselves on her, and con men and drunks and lawyers come calling. Julie and her husband discover that the modern world is complex and that it grinds ever on without pause or concern for their hard work. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. Robert Morgan's latest novel, Gap Creek, returns his readers to the vivid world of the Appalachian high country. Julie and Hank's new life in the valley of Gap Creek in the last years of the nineteenth century is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Sometimes it's hard to tell what to fear most-the fires and floods or the flesh-and-blood grifters, drunks, and busybodies who insinuate themselves into their new lives. Their struggles with nature, with work, with the changing century, and with their disappointments and triumphs make this a riveting follow-up to Morgan's acclaimed novel, The Truest, Paperback, Ausgabe: 3rd Print/Original Cover Art, Label: Scribner, Scribner, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1999, Studio: Scribner, Verkaufsrang: 3877568.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, New Chapter Recycling.
An Oprah's Book Club Selection An unflinching tale of turn-of-the-century Appalachian life, "Gap Creek" chronicles the challenging first year in the marriage of Julie Harmon and Hank Richards. After losing both her father and brother before turning 17, Julie faces fire, flood, grifters, sickness, and starvation with grim determination and remarkable stamina. By capturing the earthy details of rural life, including raw, riveting accounts of everything from hog slaughtering to childbirth, Robert Morgan weaves the human and the heroic that coexist in every individual. There is a most unusual woman living in Gap Creek. Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. She is just a teenager when her little brother dies in her arms. That same year she marries and moves down into the valley where floods and fire and visions visit themselves on her, and con men and drunks and lawyers come calling. Julie and her husband discover that the modern world is complex and that it grinds ever on without pause or concern for their hard work. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. Robert Morgan's latest novel, Gap Creek, returns his readers to the vivid world of the Appalachian high country. Julie and Hank's new life in the valley of Gap Creek in the last years of the nineteenth century is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Sometimes it's hard to tell what to fear most-the fires and floods or the flesh-and-blood grifters, drunks, and busybodies who insinuate themselves into their new lives. Their struggles with nature, with work, with the changing century, and with their disappointments and triumphs make this a riveting follow-up to Morgan's acclaimed novel, The Truest, Paperback, Ausgabe: 3rd Print/Original Cover Art, Label: Scribner, Scribner, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1999, Studio: Scribner, Verkaufsrang: 3877568.

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contemporary,domestic life,fiction,foreign language fiction,genre fiction,historical,literary,literature and fiction,women's fiction, Gap Creek, Oprah Book Clubr Selection, January 2000: Robert Morgan's Gap Creek opens with one wrenching death and ends with another. In between, this novel of turn-of-the-century Appalachian life works in fire, flood, swindlers, sickness, and starvation--a truly biblical assortment of plagues, all visited on the sturdy shoulders of 17-year-old Julie Harmon. "Human life don't mean a thing in this world," she concludes. And who could blame her? "People could be born and they could suffer, and they could die, and it didn't mean a thing.... The world was exactly like it had been and would always be, going on about its business." For Julie, that business is hard physical labor. Fortunately, she's fully capable of working "like a man"--splitting and hauling wood, butchering hogs, rendering lard, planting crops, and taking care of the stock. Even when Julie meets and marries handsome young Hank Richards, there's no happily-ever-after in store. Nothing comes easy in Julie Harmon's world, and their first year together is no exception. Throughout the novel, Morgan chronicles Julie's trials in prose of great dignity and clarity, capturing the rhythms of North Carolina speech by using only the subtlest of inflections. Clearly the author has done his research too--the descriptions of physical labor practically leap off the page. (Suffice to say, you'll learn far more about hog slaughtering than you ever dreamed of knowing.) Yet he resists the temptation to make his long-sufferin.

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