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Denise Giardina

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The United States

gender

female

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http://www.denisegiardina.com

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Historical Fiction

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Often labelled an Appalachian writer, or a historical novelist, Denise Giardina describes herself as a theological writer, exploring fundamental issues of faith and belief through literary characters.

Born and raised in the West Virginia coalfields, Giardina is an ordained Episcopal Church deacon, a community activist and a former candidate for the WV state governorship.

Her novels, fictionalizing historical characters and events, have been critically acclaimed and recognised with a number of literary prizes.

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Books by Denise Giardina

Average rating: 3.99 · 1,289 ratings · 254 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Storming Heaven 4.16 avg rating — 415 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Emily's Ghost: A Novel of the Bronte Sisters 3.74 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Unquiet Earth 4.10 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Saints and Villains 4.04 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Good King Harry 3.81 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fallam's Secret 3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Die Geliebte Des Raben: Roman 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Die Rose Von Lancaster: Roman 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	My rating:

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“I have traveled outside the mountains, but never lived apart from them. I always feared mountains would be as jealous, as unforgiving, as any spurned lover. Leave them and they may never take you back. Besides, I never felt a need to go. There is enough to study in these hills to last a lifetime.”
― Denise Giardina, Storming Heaven

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“And what more can God do,' he asks, 'then to take on flesh and suffer every humiliation and every fear and every pain that humanity suffers? What more without destroying human freedom?”
― Denise Giardina, Saints and Villains

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“Every way I turned the lush green peaks towered over me. Had it been winter or spring, they would have been iron gray or dappled with pink and white dogwood, sarvis, and redbud, but always they would be there, the mountains, their heights rounded by the elements like relics worn smooth by the hands of reverent pilgrims.”
― Denise Giardina, Storming Heaven

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