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  <title><![CDATA[Listening for the Crack of Dawn (American Storytelling)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Audiences at storytelling festivals worldwide are passionate about Donald Davis and his deceptively soft-edged Appalachian stories. Developed in oral performance, Davis'stories resonate in the experiences of his listeners and readers. The fourteen stories in this, his signature title, are so convincingly private as to be universal. The laughter, silent tears, and thunderous applause these stories elicit in live performance and the many repeat-buyers who give the book to friend after friend prompted us to commemorate them in this anniversary edition.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1990</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Downloaded from <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://Audible.com">Audible.com</a><br/><br/>Narrator: Donald Davis<br/>Publisher: August House, 2001<br/>Length: 2 hours (abridged)<br/><br/>Publisher's Summary<br/>Donald Davis was born into a southern Appalachian mountain world rich in stories. He grew up listening to his father and his Uncle Frank tell ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9526714">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this story and it has a resurrection theme which makes it preachable.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite people wrote this book.  He is a storyteller from North Carolina.  It's hard to read without imagining his accent along with it.  Makes you feel like you are a part of his family.  I also love all of his stories on CDs, they are great for the whole family to listen to.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Donald Davis's stories  are funny, heartwarming, comfortable, the kinds of stories that make you feel good about being in the world. The only thing better than reading his stories is listening to him tell them.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I herd this guy at the story telling festival in North San Juan that I went to years ago with Geba. It has never stopped cracking me up. Just read with a southern drawl. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Donald Davies shares tales from the Appalachian Mtn's where family history lived on thru the art of storytelling.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of the most memorable books of my childhood.]]></body>
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