Sharecropper's son, mill worker, and ex-convict, Ellis Burt knows adversity. For a brief, cherished time, there was a woman, and then a child too, who had been a kind of salvation to him. Then they were gone, leaving Ellis to carry on with the burden of the ruin he brought down upon them all.
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Review:
A rare pleasure . . . Scenes so shimmering and vivid they lodge in memory . . . A bone-deep story felt as well as told . . . Judson Mitcham's first novel is spare, muted, painful, funny, and raw.--Newark Star-Ledger
About the Author:
Judson Mitcham's poems have appeared in "Poetry," the "Georgia Review," and "Harper's." His novels, "The Sweet Everlasting" and "Sabbath Creek," are both winners of the Townsend Prize for Fiction. He teaches writing at Mercer University.
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- PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0820318078
- ISBN 13 9780820318073
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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