Fenton Johnson

Crossing the River

A Novel

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A spirited Southern woman upends the insular world of her small Kentucky town in this acclaimed debut novel by a storyteller of distinction (Publishers Weekly).Kentucky, 1944. Though she hails from a Fundamentalist Baptist family, there is nothing conventional about Martha Bragg Pickett Miracle. In her youth, she smoked cigarettes, rode motorcycles, and snuck across the Knob Fork River to buy beer from Catholics-and fall in love with one. Twenty years later, Martha has settled into marriage. But deep down, she's just as rebellious as she ever was.The arrival of a smooth-talking Yankee contractor leads Martha to turn her life upside down-unawa… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8131-6648-3
EAN: 9780813166483
Produktnummer: 36820812
Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 194 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Fenton Johnson is the author of award-winning fiction and literary nonfiction, including the novels Scissors, Paper, Rock and The Man Who Loved Birds, as well as Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey among Christian and Buddhist Monks and Geography of the Heart: A Memoir. He is associate professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona and teaches in the MFA program at Spalding University in Louisville.