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13%OFFShonna Milliken Humphrey - Show Me Good Land - 9780892729166 - V9780892729166
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Show Me Good Land

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Description for Show Me Good Land Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
Set in fictional Fort Angus, Maine, Show Me Good Land tells the story of a small rural town struggling with poverty and decay after decades of prosperity. Loosely linked through a grisly murder, its characters must navigate the ambiguous moral landscape of a waning community. It is a moving, sometimes melancholy, often funny novel about family, community, loss, redemption, and coming home. The pleasure lies in exploring the personalities of the characters, none of whom are all good or all bad, and eventually deciding where the reader's own moral lines are drawn. Not since Carolyn Chute's The Beans of Egypt, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780892729166
SKU
V9780892729166
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

Reviews for Show Me Good Land
From a small airplane, Aroostook County-THE County, as it's known here in Maine-is a patchwork of potato fields and forest stands, pond and farmsteads, also towns strung like cultured pearls along the roads and rivers. Show Me Good Land is like that, too, an intricately plotted and subtly colored quilt of the flummoxed lives of the people down there, where ... Read more

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