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FROM: Daugherty <[removed]@netnitco.net>
REC'D: 1/24/01, 10:13 PM

I think we got a little away from Jesse Stuart and moved more toward the
Appalachian theme. I hope that's all right. I have a few additional
suggestions:

Jim the Boy by Tony Early. A wonderful short novel about a young boy in
a small North Carolina town, growing up fatherless, but with 3 ornery
wonderful uncles. I don't remember whether this was the Appalachian
part of N.C. or not, though

October Sky by Homer H. Hickam. West Virginia coal mining town. More,
perhaps, of the flavor of a coal mining town, than of Appalachian
folklore, etc.

Other Lee Smith books such as my favorite: Fair and Tender Ladies, and
Saving Grace.

Michael Lee West. American Pie

Lana Witt. Slow dancing on dinosaur bones. Lively, entertaining tale
of east Kentucky folks at war with the coal barons.

Margaret Maron's mysteries: Bootlegger's Daughter; Home Fires, etc.

Lynn

FROM: "Brad Scott" <[removed]@ci.allen.tx.us>
REC'D: 1/25/01, 9:35 AM

What about Wendell Berry? I haven't read very much of either author's work, so I can't make any stylistic comparison, but I know that both of them are Kentuckians who write about rural life.

Bradley A. Scott
Allen (Texas) Public Library

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