Morgan, C. E. All the Living ISBN 13: 9780307397331

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An astonishing novel that seizes the heart, and sets age-old conflicts against modern life. All the Living has the timeless quality of a parable, evoking a time and place with such beauty and power that it is unforgettable.

It’s a hot, dry summer and a young woman travels to Kentucky with her lover, Orren, to the isolated tobacco farm he has inherited after his family dies in a terrible accident. As he works through the drought, Aloma struggles to find her way in a combative, erotically charged relationship with this taciturn man. Her growing friendship with a local charismatic preacher further complicates her sense of lonely dissatisfaction as she grapples with the eternal question of whether it is better to fight for freedom or submit to desire.

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At first she could see his figure only as a dark shape and the sun firing on the watch on his right arm as he turned the wheel. Then when he was finally before her, braking and leaning in slightly under the shade of the visor to pull the keys from the ignition, she found the broad contours of his face and the color of his skin, much browner than the last time she had seen him, the day after the funeral three weeks ago when he came down to the school and sat beside her and set a question to her. He said, You’ll come up? And she said, Yes, yes. And it don’t matter if it’s all out of order like it is? And she shook her head and took his blanched face in her hands and kissed him, and that had struck her later as an odd reversal, he usually being the one to reach out and pull her to him.

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'A distinctive and wonderful book, which lingers and deepens in your mind' Hilary Mantel

'Steeped in dust, sweat, tension and desire, “All the Living” feels like a classic - the finest first novel I've read in years' Tash Aw

‘This striking novel is rich in future promise.’ Sunday Times

‘[A] lyrical tale of grief and gruelling love on a tobacco farm ... [Morgan’s] pacing is shrewd. By the time the harvest is done, two lonely people are fused, if not consoled.’ New Yorker

‘As I read the opening pages of “All the Living” I was suddenly no longer in my study but gazing out at the leafy tobacco plants of a small Kentucky farm where a young couple are struggling to make their living, and their lives. In seemingly effortless prose, C.E. Morgan captures both the complexity and the simplicity of Orren’s relentlessly hard work and Aloma’s dangerous drift towards another man. A wonderful debut.’ Margot Livesey

‘[An] elegant debut novel...reminiscent of Flannery O’Connor and Carson McCullers. Morgan dutifully shows how ambivalence, duty and deceit might play out in a claustrophobic agrarian world.’ TLS

‘A perceptive portrayal of love and the burden of loss in the American South.’ Waterstone’s Books Quarterly

‘Sweetly haunting.’ The List

About the Author:
C. E. Morgan studied English and voice at Berea College and holds a masters of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. She lives in Kentucky.

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  • PublisherRandom House of Canada Ltd
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 0307397335
  • ISBN 13 9780307397331
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages199
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