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Dorie Porks looks back to her eleventh year as a poor child in the sleepy Appalachian town of Poorwater, reflects on her coal-miner father, strong mother, and wayward brother, and wonders about the powerful and mysterious gift of healing she possesses
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It is Hankla's gift to take material that could be mean and ugly and mine it for beauty, to depict not alienation, but the cruel and tender binding of family and community members one to another. Her feet are planted firmly in the mountains of Appalachia.... Hankla's novel is a book to haunt long after it is finished. A Blue Moon in Poorwater is a wonderful, captivating, involving novel. Ms. Hankla never seems even tempted to give in to the urge to render her miners and her mountain folk as 'quaint' or 'folksy.' They are fully drawn, complicated people with dimensions, and the central speaker, Dorie, has an unrelenting eye for the truth of the experience.--Richard Bausch, author of Good Evening Mr. and Mrs.America, and All the Ships at Sea A Blue Moon in Poorwater is a wonderful, captivating, involving novel. Ms. Hankla never seems even tempted to give in to the urge to render her miners and her mountain folk as 'quaint' or 'folksy.' They are fully drawn, complicated people with dimensions, and the central speaker, Dorie, has an unrelenting eye for the truth of the experience.--Richard Bausch, author of "Good Evening Mr. and Mrs.America," and "All the Ships at Sea" It is Hankla's gift to take material that could be mean and ugly and mine it for beauty, to depict not alienation, but the cruel and tender binding of family and community members one to another. Her feet are planted firmly in the mountains of Appalachia.... Hankla's novel is a book to haunt long after it is finished.
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Cathryn Hankla is an associate professor of English at Hollins College. Her most recent books are two collections of poetry, Negative History and Afterimages.
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- PublisherTicknor & Fields
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0899195342
- ISBN 13 9780899195346
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