David Joy
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Larry Brown, Daniel Woodrell, William Gay, Ron Rash, Jim Harrison
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Where All Light Tends to Go
16 editions
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2015
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The Line That Held Us
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2018
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When These Mountains Burn
13 editions
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2020
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The Weight of This World
9 editions
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2017
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Appalachia Now
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2015
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Gather at the River: Twenty-Five Authors on Fishing
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2019
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Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman's Journey
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2011
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Those We Thought We Knew
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2023
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Là où les lumières se perdent extrait
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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
“His mind turned instantly back to what had been troubling him over the past week. He was grieving the loss of a place and a people. It was hard enough to bury the bodies of those you loved, but it was another sadness altogether to witness the death of a culture. There was the gone and the going away, and there was the after. He found it difficult to imagine what would become of this place, harder still to witness what it was already becoming. For”
― When These Mountains Burn
― When These Mountains Burn
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“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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