William Woolfitt

Ring of Earth (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Humankind confronts its fraught relationship with the natural world in the stories of Ring of Earth, where William Woolfitt traces the history of survival and resistance in his home region of Appalachia. Woolfitt's characters find ways to reclaim, repossess, and re-sacralize what's been taken from them, to reckon with the destruction of their environments, cultures, homes, and bodies. The Sinks of Gandy is based on historical accounts of a woman who shot one of the last eastern elks near Spruce Knob in the 1830s; in Fire Season, a dying father watches through his window the red spruce forests burning. Clay eaters, orphans, child miners, immigrant laborers, and the victims of illegal sterilizations are among the survivors in Ring of Earth who bear witness to our broken land as they search for the hope and the mystery that might still be running and running beneath the shell of the earth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Madville Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781956440607
• Artikelnr.: 68482539

Autorenporträt

William Woolfitt's fiction chapbook, The Boy with Fire in His Mouth (2014), won the Epiphany Editions contest judged by Darin Strauss. He has also written several books of poems, including Spring Up Everlasting (Mercer University Press, 2020). His short stories and essays have been published in Tin House, Best Small Fictions, The Cincinnati Review, Appalachian Review, Epoch, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. After growing up in West Virginia, Woolfitt relocated to another part of AppalachiaCleveland, Tennessee, where he lives with his family and teaches college writing classes.