The Distance from Slaughter County
Lessons from Flyover Country
Seiten
2023
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7395-0 (ISBN)
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7395-0 (ISBN)
As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond. In those travels, he’s seen what place can mean, specifically rural places, and how it follows us, changes us. Place and how we define it - and how it defines us - is a through line throughout this collection of eleven essays.
As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond. In those travels, he's seen what place can mean, specifically rural places, and how it follows us, changes us. What Moore has to say about rural places speaks to anyone who has driven a lonely road at night, with nothing but darkness as a cushion between them and the emptiness that surrounds. Place and how we define it—and how it defines us—is a through line throughout the collection of eleven essays. Moore writes about where we come from and the disconnection we often feel between each other: between veterans and nonveterans, between people of different political beliefs, between regions, between eras. These pieces build into a contemplative whole, one that is a powerful meditation on why where we come from means something and how we'll always bring where we are with us, no matter where we go.
As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond. In those travels, he's seen what place can mean, specifically rural places, and how it follows us, changes us. What Moore has to say about rural places speaks to anyone who has driven a lonely road at night, with nothing but darkness as a cushion between them and the emptiness that surrounds. Place and how we define it—and how it defines us—is a through line throughout the collection of eleven essays. Moore writes about where we come from and the disconnection we often feel between each other: between veterans and nonveterans, between people of different political beliefs, between regions, between eras. These pieces build into a contemplative whole, one that is a powerful meditation on why where we come from means something and how we'll always bring where we are with us, no matter where we go.
Steven Moore is the author of The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier, which won the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction. He's been published in multiple journals, including Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, and more.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.02.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Chapel Hill |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 272 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4696-7395-9 / 1469673959 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4696-7395-0 / 9781469673950 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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