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David Joy
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in Charlotte, The United States
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Larry Brown, Daniel Woodrell, William Gay, Ron Rash, Jim Harrison
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Where All Light Tends to Go
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2015
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11 editions
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The Line That Held Us
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2018
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The Weight of This World
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2017
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Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman's Journey
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Appalachia Now
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2015
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| One of the most beautiful books I've ever read. I don't know what else to say. It left me at a loss for words. Read it. Just read it. | |
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| If a week ago you’d told me I’d read a novel better than Richard Powers’ The Overstory this year, I’d have said I was doubtful. If you’d told me it would be a debut novel, I’d have said you were out of your mind. Nevertheless, here I am reading a boo ...more | |
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| Trying to explain Richard Powers' Overstory a few weeks back I told someone that it was as if Wendell Berry had written a work of magical realism. I don't know if that's exactly right or not now, but I know that this novel is something different than ...more | |
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| John Branch's resume speaks for itself. Pulitzer. PEN. Flat out, he's one of the most, if not THE most, talented sports writers at work. His essay "Deliverance From 27,000 Feet" might've been my favorite thing I read last year. Now comes The Last Cow ...more | |
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| I wanted to write a book as if William Gay and Flannery O'Connor co-wrote McCarthy's Child Of God. I wanted to create a "bad guy" as memorable as Lester Ballard, The Misfit, or the Paper-Hanger. This was as close as I could get to that. | |
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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| A great story written at the pace of a thriller. Gobbled it up in one sitting. I personally loved it. | |
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A book that couldn't have been written by anyone else. These pages sing with authenticity down to the details of cold spring water in enameled tin cups. As I read, I was reminded of something I heard an old timer say once about the poverty of mountai ...more |
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“That kind of love wasn’t for anyone outside the two of them. It was private and silent, sufficient as grace.”
― The Line That Held Us
― The Line That Held Us
“For as tough as the men were in these mountains, the women had always been stone. They were used to loss, accustomed to never having enough. They were fit for the harshness of this world.”
― The Line That Held Us
― The Line That Held Us
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On the Southern L...:
Now Accepting Nominations for May, 2015, Group Reads
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| Bookworm Bitches : April 2015 Bunch-O-Bitches Reading Challenge | 58 | 164 | May 05, 2015 08:30AM | |
| On the Southern L...: Where All Light Tends to Go, by David Joy: May 2015 | 24 | 52 | May 21, 2015 07:09PM | |
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| A Million More Pages: Sneaky S'mores vs The Wrecking Crew | 776 | 91 | Jul 18, 2015 12:14PM | |
| On the Southern L...: Bull Mountain, by Brian Panowich: Initial impressions. September 2015 | 46 | 45 | Sep 15, 2015 10:55AM |
“They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said.
We're not opposites.'
I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave.”
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We're not opposites.'
I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave.”
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“Some souls aren't worth saving, I thought. There're some souls that even the devil wants no part of.”
― Where All Light Tends to Go
― Where All Light Tends to Go
“There was a place where all light tends to go, and I reckon that was heaven.”
― Where All Light Tends to Go
― Where All Light Tends to Go
“Light never shined on a man like me and that was certain. In a lot of ways, that made men like Daddy the lucky ones to have only ever known the darkness. Knowing only darkness, a man doesn't have to get his heart broken in search of the light. I envied him for that.”
― Where All Light Tends to Go
― Where All Light Tends to Go
“Only the middle ground of this wicked world mattered, the vast gap that stretched between, and those who were born with enough grit to brave it.”
― Where All Light Tends to Go
― Where All Light Tends to Go
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A place for Bitter Southerner Family Members to discuss their favorite Southern books of the moment — and in history. We've loaded the shelf with book ...more
