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Watchin' the Bluegrass Grow
Robert Elkins
其他書名
Appalachian Spirits, Stories, and Tales
出版The Overmountain Press, 2006-10
主題Fiction / GeneralFiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyHistory / United States / State & Local / GeneralSocial Science / Folklore & Mythology
ISBN15707230529781570723056
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PvjwO6oN40YC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Cane Bottom, this book's fictional Appalachian town, boasts an assortment of made-up crusty characters who get into a story-telling contest at the depot one night—with the twist that their tales and anecdotes are pieces of real American folklore. The narrator's authentic first-person colloquialisms and comments on the progress of the evening's entertainment provide a portrait of mountain social life around 1950, still moving at a snail's pace even as the rest of America gets on the move. The second part of the book is a collection of prose poems that describe the goings-on in Cane Bottom when its residents suddenly have to cope with a religious conversion, a baptism, a wake, a funeral, and some difficulties surrounding snake handling.