![]() ![]() He also carefully lays the groundwork for his larger story. She was accompanied by her father, who carried beneath his shabby frock coat a bowie knife sharpened with great attentiveness earlier that morning so it would plunge as deep as possible into Pemberton’s heart.”Īs that demonstrates, Mr. “When Pemberton returned to the North Carolina mountains after three months in Boston settling his father’s estate, among those waiting on the train platform was a young woman pregnant with Pemberton’s child. It opens with a paragraph too good to paraphrase: ![]() Henry Prize and other honors, it will prompt instant interest in his first, second and third. For those unfamiliar with the elegantly fine-tuned voice of this Appalachian poet and storyteller, a writer whose reputation has been largely regional despite an O. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |