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A Wounded Snake: (Appalachian Fiction)

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Joseph Anthony's fine historical novel A Wounded Snake presents a compassionate, yet unsentimental, study of race, politics, law, and lawlessness in the near-South, turn of the 20th Century city of Lexington, Kentucky. Local information about events and personalities is set up as precisely as lead type placed, letter by letter, onto a printing press, to reveal line by line, in stark black and white, how a century ago "a good truth....did more than a fist in the face could ever do." In today's atmosphere of renewed racial tension, A Wounded Snake serves to remind the reader that "we cannot be in this place we�ve been." For although "forgetting is what we do best in the South," it's time to remember and change. --Christina Lovin, author of A Stirring in the Dark and Echo: Poems

About the Author :
Joseph G. Anthony moved from Manhattan�s Upper West Side to Hazard, Kentucky in 1980. Anthony, an English professor for 35 years, regularly contributes essays and poems to anthologies, including a poem and story in Kentucky�s Twelve Days of Christmas. His most recent novel, Wanted: Good Family (Bottom Dog Press) was described by the Lexington Herald-Leader as �masterfully written and well grounded in Kentucky history and mannerisms [exploring] race, class, relationship and the potential for change.� His previous books include two short story collections, Camden Blues and Bluegrass Funeral plus two novels�Peril, Kentucky, and Pickering�s Mountain. Appalachian Heritage�s said of Pickering that: �Anthony balances multiple voices with restraint�[he makes] us feel for their individual pain and sorrow, their prejudice and greed and lack of guile and fully-realized humanity.� Anthony lives in Lexington, Kentucky with his wife of forty years, Elise Mandel. They have three grown children.

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"Drawing on historical sources, Joseph Anthony opens a window into the struggle of black Lexingtonians to overcome Jim Crow at the turn of the last century. Extensively researched, this novel rescues neglected history from a few dry texts and elevates it to the level of drama. Anthony uses multiple voices, black and white, that cut across the social spectrum to chronicle the painful and costly rise of African Americans towards full citizenship during the Progressive Era. At the center of the drama are a courageous black editor, his idealistic understudy, and a prominent white judge who bucks the system to do the right thing. Joe Anthony has produced an eye-opening narrative that does much to explain the complexity of race relations in Lexington at a turning point in history." Richard Taylor, former poet laureate of Kentucky Joseph Anthony's fine historical novel A Wounded Snake presents a compassionate, yet unsentimental, study of race, politics, law, and lawlessness in the near-South, turn of the 20th Century city of Lexington, Kentucky. Local information about events and personalities is set up as precisely as lead type placed, letter by letter, onto a printing press, to reveal line by line, in stark black and white, how a century ago "a good truth....did more than a fist in the face could ever do." In today's atmosphere of renewed racial tension, A Wounded Snake serves to remind the reader that "we cannot be in this place we�ve been." For although "forgetting is what we do best in the South," it's time to remember and change. --Christina Lovin, author of A Stirring in the Dark and Echo: Poems . Praise for Wanted: Good Family: �The book is masterfully written and well grounded in Kentucky history and mannerisms. It explores race, class, relationships and the potential for change-- issues that are as relevant today as they were when this story takes place more than six decades ago.� �Tom Eblen, The Lexington Herald-Leader


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781947504080
  • Publisher: Bottom Dog Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Bottom Dog Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 292
  • Series Title: Appalachian Fiction
  • Weight: 458 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1947504088
  • Publisher Date: 23 Sep 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Width: 178 mm


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