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A Buried Land
Book by Jones, Madison
- GenresFiction
296 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1987
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Madison Jones
47 books12 followersMadison Percy Jones was a novelist from Nashville, Tennessee. He published almost a dozen novels in his lifetime, and is considered "one of the major figures of contemporary southern letters."
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November 9, 2011
"A Buried Land" is a Macbethian psychological study on the corrosive powers of deep secrets. Jones parallels the buried secrets with the massive Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) that transformed Tennessee during and after WWII.
Many of the characters were relocated from their homesteads that were subsequently buried by the waters behind a dam. The TVA reimbursed them in money and real hopes of progress, but the psychic toll was large - which is the elephant in the room of this wonderfully evocative novel.
I won't give out the plot - but after the slow burning beginning, the pages fly as you wonder how the main character, Percy, will deal with his horrors.
Many of the characters were relocated from their homesteads that were subsequently buried by the waters behind a dam. The TVA reimbursed them in money and real hopes of progress, but the psychic toll was large - which is the elephant in the room of this wonderfully evocative novel.
I won't give out the plot - but after the slow burning beginning, the pages fly as you wonder how the main character, Percy, will deal with his horrors.
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