Strange Birds in the Tree of HeavenUniversity of Georgia Press, 4 de set. 2004 - 288 pàgines This haunting debut novel invites us to explore the boundaries between beliefs, desires, obsessions, and madness. Karen Salyer McElmurray's story is set in Mining Hollow, Kentucky, where we meet Ruth Blue Wallen; her husband, Earl; and their son, Andrew. Ruth longs to know God, the only escape she can find in a world that has shown her spiritual, emotional, and sensual defeat. Earl yearns for the music-making of his past, now lost as he makes a living as a coal miner. Andrew desires the affection of a boyhood friend, an expression of love considered sinful in rural Kentucky. And with the divinely inspired yet tormenting help of his mother, in a world of deeply and tragically conflicting desires, Andrew must choose to live or die--he must choose an uncertain love or nothing at all. |
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AUGUST 16 1983 | 3 |
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19261936 | 28 |
BEFORE THE FACT | 60 |
1941 | 64 |
1941 | 84 |
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1948 | 93 |
1962 | 198 |
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19631966 | 212 |
SUMMER 1969 | 223 |
SUMMER 1969 | 229 |
AUGUST 16 1983 | 234 |
19691976 | 237 |
19691976 | 245 |
19461948 | 98 |
1948 | 127 |
1948 | 130 |
SUMMER 1948 | 144 |
SUMMER 1948 | 147 |
AUGUST 16 1983 | 153 |
19481953 | 155 |
SPRING 1949 | 167 |
AUTUMN 19521953 | 170 |
AUGUST 16 1983 | 183 |
1962 | 185 |
AUGUST 16 1983 | 251 |
SUMMER 1980 | 253 |
AUGUST 16 1983 | 261 |
AUGUST 16 1983 | 268 |
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RUTH | 285 |
ANDREW | 287 |
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