Robert Morgan Livres

There is a most unusual woman living in Gap Creek. Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. She is just a teenager when her little brother dies in her arms. That same year she marries and moves down into the valley where floods and fire and visions visit themselves on her, and con men and drunks and lawyers come calling. Julie and her husband discover that the modern world is complex and that it grinds ever on without pause or concern for their hard work. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. Robert Morgan's latest novel, Gap Creek, returns his readers to the vivid world of the Appalachian high country. Julie and Hank's new life in the valley of Gap Creek in the last years of the nineteenth century is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Sometimes it's hard to tell what to fear most-the fires and floods or the flesh-and-blood grifters, drunks, and busybodies who insinuate themselves into their new lives. Their struggles with nature, with work, with the changing century, and with their disappointments and triumphs make this a riveting follow-up to Morgan's acclaimed novel, The Truest Pleasure.

"The Powell brothers, Muir and Moody, are as different as Cain and Abel. Muir is an innocent, a shy young man with big dreams and not the slightest idea of what to do about them. Moody, the older and wilder brother--embittered by the death of his father, by years of fighting his mother, and by his jealousy of Muir's privileged place in the family--takes to moonshine and gambling and turns his anger on his brother. Muir escapes, hoping to find something--an occupation, a calling--to match his ambition."--Jacket

This timely book offers a raw critique of the current educational issues and debates, alongside ‘teacher hacks’ to provide teachers, trainee teachers and educators with a plethora of stimulating material to ignite curiosity, maintain passion, and culture creativity in the classroom.

Virginia Peace, genannt Ginny, wächst zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts in den Bergen North Carolinas auf. Nach dem frühen Tod ihrer Mutter lebt sie mit ihrem Vater und drei Geschwistern. Ginny ist klug und fleißig, aber nicht besonders hübsch. Mit 17 Jahren heiratet sie den Arbeiter Thomas Powell, was zunächst vielversprechend erscheint: Ginny benötigt jemanden, der den Besitz ihres alternden Vaters verwaltet, während Tom Farmland sucht. Doch ihre Ehe wird durch Ginnys Glauben an die Pfingstbewegung belastet, in der sie Trost und Transzendenz sucht. Tom hingegen ist ein Pragmatiker, der nur an Geld und harter Arbeit glaubt. Die Probleme eskalieren, als Ginny nach Jahren der Zufriedenheit als Mutter und Ehefrau erneut versucht, ihren „Geist zu reinigen“, und Tom es ihr verbietet, die Kinder zu den Andachten mitzunehmen. Die ständigen Streitereien, Sorgen um das Land und der Tod eines Kindes führen zu einer tiefen Entfremdung zwischen den beiden. Ihre Ehe droht zu zerbrechen. Erst als Tom an Typhus erkrankt und stirbt, beginnt Ginny, die wahre Bedeutung von Heimat und Liebe zu erkennen.