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Long Man by Amy Greene
4.0
Amy Greene has lived all her life in East Tennessee Smoky Mountains and says that “there is an intimacy with the landscape that comes from living here.” She captures the language, expressions, aching beauty and hardscrabble life of families that have lived on the mountaintop for generations.
I’ve always felt that character is what I look for in novels but I think setting is just as important for me. A dramatic setting that informs the unique Appalachian culture and the people who want to live and die there can tell a multitude of stories.
The prospect of change, even electricity which will bring jobs, is threatening to the farms and heritage of the tight-knit community. In Greene’s second book, Long Man, she draws from real events that happened in the summer of 1936, when a government-built dam is going to flood an Appalachian town and a girl disappears.
--Reviewed by Connie
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I’ve always felt that character is what I look for in novels but I think setting is just as important for me. A dramatic setting that informs the unique Appalachian culture and the people who want to live and die there can tell a multitude of stories.
The prospect of change, even electricity which will bring jobs, is threatening to the farms and heritage of the tight-knit community. In Greene’s second book, Long Man, she draws from real events that happened in the summer of 1936, when a government-built dam is going to flood an Appalachian town and a girl disappears.
--Reviewed by Connie
Check our catalog: http://encore.cooklib.org/iii/encore/search/C__Slong%20man%20greene__Orightresult__U?lang=eng&suite=pearl