The Blue Valley: A Collection of Stories

From Civil War prison camps to contemporary trailer parks, these thirteen memorable tales of life in the Southern Appalachians come alive with an array of intriguing characters -- male and female, young and elderly, learned and unlearned. The separate passions and dreams of these individuals mirror the larger cultural and historical dramas of American life, revealing the strengthening and loosening of the strong bonds of families over generations.

Author: Robert Morgan
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published: 10/01/2000
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.27w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780743204224

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/22/2000 pg. 36

About the Author
An accomplished novelist and poet, Robert Morgan has won the James B. Hanes Poetry Prize, the North Carolina Award in Literature, and the Jacaranda Review Fiction Prize. His short stories have appeared in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and New Stories from the South, and his novel The Truest Pleasure was a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. He is a professor of English at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York