| |
1 |
Long Man: A Novel
Author:
Greene, Amy
|
| |
|
Class:
Fiction
Age: Adult
Language: English
|
LC: PS3607.R
Print Run: 40000
|
|
ISBN-13: 9780307593436
LCCN: 2013018846
Imprint: Knopf
Publisher: Random House
|
|
Pub Date: 02/25/2014
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $25.95
|
| |
Hardcover
|
|
|
Physical Description:
|
271 pages ; 25 cm
H 9.5",
W 6.6",
D 1.2",
1.2125 lbs.
|
|
LC Series:
|
|
|
Brodart Sources:
|
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Adult
Brodart's TOP Adult Titles
|
|
Bibliographies:
|
Fiction Core Collection, 18th ed.
Fiction Core Collection, 19th ed.
Fiction Core Collection, 20th ed.
|
|
Awards:
|
Booklist Editors Choice
Booklist Starred Reviews
Kirkus Starred Reviews
Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews
|
|
Starred Reviews:
|
Booklist
Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly
|
|
TIPS Subjects:
|
Historical Fiction
Mystery/Detective Fiction
|
|
BISAC Subjects: |
FICTION / Literary
FICTION / Historical / General
FICTION / Women
|
|
LC Subjects:
|
Abduction, Tennessee, Fiction
Dams, Tennessee, Fiction
FICTION / Contemporary Women
FICTION / Historical
FICTION / Literary
Historical fiction
Missing children, Tennessee, Fiction
Mystery fiction
Tennessee, Fiction
|
|
SEARS Subjects: |
Dams, Tennessee, Fiction
Historical fiction
Kidnapping, Tennessee, Fiction
Missing children, Tennessee, Fiction
Mystery fiction
Tennessee, Fiction
|
|
Reading Programs: |
|
|
|
| |
| Annotations |
| Brodart's TOP Adult Titles | 10/01/2013 |
| Flooding the town in the name of progress is not a good enough reason to wash away all the years young mother Annie Clyde Dodson's ancestors spent calling Yuneetah and an East Tennessee river called Long Man home. Determined to ensure her three-year-old daughter will inherit her land as the Tennessee Valley Authority looks to dam the river and provide new jobs, Annie has more to worry about when Annie and her husband's daughter vanishes. 288pp., 40K, Auth res: Russellville, TN, Tour |
|
| Starred Reviews: |
| Booklist | 12/15/2013 |
| Greene's second novel revisits blue-collar Appalachia with the same haunting lyricism she brought to her magnificent first novel, Bloodroot (2010). In the summer of 1936, the Tennessee Valley Authority has determined to dam the river Long Man and flood the town of Yuneetah in eastern Tennessee in the name of progress. Just one day remains before the town will be flooded, and most of the citizens have been evacuated. But there are a handful of people who refuse to leave the land that has been in their familiesfor generations. Among them is Annie Clyde Dodson, who longs for her three-year-old daughter, Gracie, to grow up on her beautiful mountaintop farm. As a storm starts to rage, Gracie goes missing, and the sheriff, as well as Annie's few remaining neighbors, must cover miles of wild country in search of the toddler. In addition, the mysterious Amos, an orphan who grew up in Yuneetah, has returned for one final act of vengeance. Greene, with searing eloquence, seems to channel the frustrations of generations of rural poor in this stark indictment of a soulless government hell-bent on destroying a long-standing community. Her stunning insight into a proud and insular people is voiced with cold clarity and burning anger. Wilkinson, Joanne. 288p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2013. |
|
| Kirkus Reviews | 12/15/2013 |
| Crises abound in a small Tennessee town in 1936, just days before a dam is set to flood it. The Tennessee Valley Authority was designed to help modernize the state during the Great Depression, bringing electricity to its rural regions. But the TVA only spells destruction for the Eastern Tennessee town of Yuneetah, and Greene's excellent second novel (Bloodroot, 2010) focuses on the holdouts there who haven't yet left or who refuse to leave. Chief among them are husband and wife James and Annie Clyde, who'd been arguing over a move to bustling Michigan but who shift their energies once their 3-year-old daughter, Gracie, goes missing. The lead suspect in her disappearance is Amos, a one-eyed Yuneetah native who's spent much of his life as a drifter connected to violent protests against government projects like the TVA. Greene repeatedly likens Amos to a force of nature, like the Long Man River that runs through the dying town, and the novel thoughtfully touches on the question of how much place shapes our personalities. If there is a way to write about this milieu--Southern, prewar, thick with family and history--without evoking William Faulkner, Greene hasn't pursued it. But her long paragraphs, sinuous and tonally mythic, aren't slavish Faulkner imitations either, and Gracie's disappearance, alongside Amos' cat-and-mouse game with authorities, gives the novel a welcome propulsion. (The fates of both characters, once revealed, are harrowing, riveting reading.) Two older sisters in town provide windows into the folkways about to be submerged, while a local police officer and TVA functionary represent the transformations to come, but Greene's imagination is too fecund to make these characters mere symbols. Her novel fully inhabits the contradictions within each character and the ironies inherent in destroying a place in the name of progress. A smart and moody historical novel that evokes the best widescreen Southern literature. 272pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
|
| Publishers Weekly | 11/11/2013 |
| Like a classical myth or a painting by Thomas Hart Benton, Greene's second novel (after Bloodroot), set in the summer of 1936, transforms a period of cataclysmic history into a gorgeous, tragic tale filled with heroes and heroines. After the Tennessee Valley Authority builds a dam to electrify rural Appalachia, the river that folks have always called Long Man rises a little more with every turn of the page, and most of the families in the town of Yuneetah, Tenn., are long gone, scattered to other cities to take up factory jobs. In days, the hardscrabble farm fields they abandoned will be overcome by water, and Annie Clyde Dodson's family farm, too, will end up at the bottom of the lake. Only Annie Clydewon't leave; she's determined to hold out so that her three-year-old daughter Gracie can inherit her ancestral land. But Gracie disappears with her dog Rusty during a terrible storm, the floodwaters rising by the hour. Only a few--the sheriff, Annie Clyde's aunt Silver, and the mysterious drifter Amos, among them--are left to help Annie Cylde and Gracie's dad, James, search through the tangle of sodden woods and fields already knee high in muck. Greene's enormous talent animates the voices and landscape of East Tennessee so vividly, and creates such exquisite tension, that the reader is left as exhausted and devastated as the characters in this unforgettable story. (Feb.). 288p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2013. |
|
| Journal Reviews |
| Library Journal Prepub Alert | 08/26/2013 |
| Greene follows up her debut, Bloodroot, an Appalachian saga that has sold nearly 70,000 copies across all formats, with another Appalachia-set tale. In 1936, the Tennessee Valley Authority plans to dam the Long Man River, delivering jobs and electricity but flooding little Yuneetah. Annie Clyde Dodson resists forsaking her doomed hometown, though her husband has found a job elsewhere. And then their little girl goes missing. Based on a true story; with a 40,000-copy first printing. 288p. LJ Prepub Alert Online Review. LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2013. |
|
9780307593436,dl.it[0].title
|
|