Clay's Quilt: A Novel - Hardcover

House, Silas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565123077 ISBN 13: 9781565123076

Publisher: Algonquin Books, 2001

Synopsis

Clay Sizemore, a coal miner in love, searches his family history for clues about who he is, uncovering a dramatic story woven into the fabric of his uncle's quilts. A first novel.

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Review

Compelling . . . Despite hardships, again and again the family and the land assert their claim on these characters, and on the reader. . . . House knows what s important and reminds us of the values of family and home, love and loyalty.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Here is life in the hills as we enter the twenty-first century the love of the land, the fierce loyalty to family, the church, substance abuse, and violence. . . . Silas House writes from deep within the culture and presents his world without apology or gloss.
CHRIS OFFUTT
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"Compelling . . . Despite hardships, again and again the family and the land assert their claim on these characters, and on the reader. . . . House knows what's important and reminds us of the values of family and home, love and loyalty."
-The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Here is life in the hills as we enter the twenty-first century-the love of the land, the fierce loyalty to family, the church, substance abuse, and violence. . . . Silas House writes from deep within the culture and presents his world without apology or gloss."
-CHRIS OFFUTT

From the Back Cover

Advance Praise for Clay's Quilt

"One of the best books I have ever read about contemporary life in the mountains of Southern Appalachia, a region I know well. Silas House is from there, he lives there now, and he gets it right...I could see and feel Free Creek, and the mountain above it...a young writer of immense gifts." -LEE SMITH

"Clay's Quilt surprises us and rewards us sentence by sentence with the deep poetry of kinship. The book is so real it's painful to read in places, lit by a special knowledge and affection. Silas House is one of the truest and most exciting new voices in American fiction." -ROBERT MORGAN

"Here is life in the hills as we enter the twenty-first century-the love of land, the fierce loyalty to family, the church, substance abuse, and violence...Silas House writes from deep within the culture and presents his world without apology or gloss." -CHRIS OFFUTT

"Murder, music, coal dust, clairvoyance: all are part of the pattern of Clay Sizemore's life in Black Banks, Kentucky. And the thread is passion...Clay's Quilt is stitched to last." -GEORGE ELLA LYONS

About this edition

• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1565123077
• ISBN 13: 9781565123076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292