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Witches on the Road Tonight

Holman, Sheri more...

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Imprint: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication Date: 1/01/2012
Place of Publication: United States

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As a child growing up in Depression-era rural Virginia, Eddie Alley's quiet life is rooted in the rumors of his mother's witchcraft. But when he's visited by a writer and photographer researching American folklore for the WPA, the spell of his mother's unorthodox life is violently disrupted.

--A "New York Times" Editors' Choice
--Winner of an Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for Literary Fiction
"Undeniably impressive . . . [Holman] boasts a fine Gothic imagination, summoning visceral details at will . . . [and] evoking the blur between the real and the supernatural as if it were the most straightforward thing, a knack possessed by few writers, though Alice Hoffman immediately springs to mind. . . . ["Witches on the Road Tonight"] explores the dark vein of magic that runs just beneath our real lives."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"Holman is a master of the miniature. She uses tiny, achingly accurate details to bring each moment to life on the page; her sentences sing. . . . This richly layered novel is Holman's most ambitious and successful yet."--"People" (4 stars)
"[Witches on the Road Tonight takes readers] deep into the secretive silence and sublime vistas of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a setting which Holman splendidly evokes ino

Title: Witches on the Road Tonight
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Contributors: By (author) Sheri Holman

ISBN 13: 9780802145710
ISBN 10: 080214571X

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Imprint: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication Date: 1/01/2012
Place of Publication: New York, United States
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BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 813.54 (DC21)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 263
Height: 206mm
Width: 137mm
Thickness: 23mm
Weight: 249g