Gap Creek
The Story Of A Marriage
By Robert Morgan
(Touchstone, Paperback, 9780743203630, 336pp.)
Publication Date: October 2, 2000
Other Editions of This Title: Audio Cassette - Abridged (January 2000), Compact Disc - Abridged (January 2000)
Categories: Historical - General, Literary
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The National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book
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.
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.
With Julie, Robert Morgan has brought to life one of the most memorable women in modern American literature with the skill that led Fred Chappell to say "Gap Creek is the work of a master."
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 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.
The New York Times Book ReviewAt their finest, his stripped-down and almost primitive sentences burn with the raw, lonesome pathos of Hank William's best songs.
Polly Paddock GossettChicago TribuneSimple but heartfelt -- a wonderful book...written in graceful, unadorned language.
Victoria BrownworthThe Baltimore SunReminiscent of James Dickey -- bearing the same naturalistic marks of clear, clean prose and often disturbing imagery...Morgan casts a stark story peopled with real, believable, and honest characters.
Pat ArnowThe Raleigh News and ObserverGripping storytelling, indelible sense of time and place...Morgan turns the stories of prosaic lives into page-turners.
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