Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You by Fred Chappell

by:   Fred Chappell         
 Hardcover  Signed 
$75.00
Description

Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You begins in a room made cool by the approach of death, where an old woman and her grieving daughter are saying good-bye in silent, urgent conversation. In the next room, Jess Kirkman waits with his father, remembering the tales his grandmother and mother have passed down - an inheritance rich in language and music and imaginative teaching, told by women to a young man who will one day find such wisdom needful.
Each tale builds and weaves in a counterplay as intricate as that of fiddle and banjo. Jess recalls "The Fisherwoman," "The Traveling Woman," "The Feistiest Woman," "The Silent Woman," "The Wind Woman," and others, in a range of ghost to detective to comic to love stories. As he tells, he comes to understand the special knowledge of the women and the place that made him: a mountain land where myth becomes history, language makes song, and time seems to pause at a certain point at dusk, when the moon casts deeper shadows than the sun.

Author(s): Fred Chappell
Publication year: 1996
Publication date: 1996-01-01
Pages: 228
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Picador USA
ISBN: 9780312146009
Dimensions: 6.0 x 1.25 x 9.0 in
Weight: 1.0 lb
Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You by Fred Chappell

Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You by Fred Chappell

$75.00