Upheaval: Stories

In 1995, Chris Holbrook burst onto the southern literary scene with Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia, stories that Robert Morgan described as "elegies for land and lives disappearing under mudslides from strip mines and new trailer parks and highways." Now, with the publication of Upheaval, Holbrook more than answers the promise of that auspicious debut. In eight interrelated stories set in Eastern Kentucky, Holbrook again captures a region and its people as they struggle in the fac

Author: Chris Holbrook
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 08/01/2009
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780813192444

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/15/2009 pg. 32

About the Author

Chris Holbrook, a native of Knott County, Kentucky, received the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing for Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Holbrook is associate professor of English at Morehead State University.

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