{"product_id":"backcountry-contemporary-writing-in-west-virginia-paperback","title":"Backcountry: Contemporary Writing in West Virginia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIrene McKinney\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is as closely-knit an anthology as you are ever likely to see. It is as though a large, extended family were drawing on the same store of family stories, jokes, symbols, landscapes, animals, trees, language, and vernacular. How many snakes are in this book? How many foxes, possums? Fossils? And how very many coal mines? But it is not merely local references that unites these writers. There is a larger vision that ties these works together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe connection is not so much in mutual influence, though there is some of that, but in each writer's total immersion in place. Even those writers who no longer live in the state remember the feel, the physical texture, the overwhelming and enfolding vegetal surround of the place.\u003c\/i\u003e\" Editor, \u003cb\u003eIrene McKinney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry from West Virginia writers titled \u003ci\u003eBackcountry: Contemporary Writing in West Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e is edited by our state's poet laureate, \u003cb\u003eIrene McKinney\u003c\/b\u003e. It features a wealth of fiction and poetry by some of the best writers in West Virginia over the last half century. More of West Virginia's writers will be featured in future collections of contemporary writing published by the WVU Press. The authors included in \u003ci\u003eBackcountry\u003c\/i\u003e are Maggie Anderson, Tom Andrews, Pinckney Benedict, Richard Currey, Mark DeFoe, Victor Depta, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Denise Giardina, Davis Grubb, Lisa Koger, Lee Maynard, Llewellyn McKernan, John McKernan, Irene McKinney, Louis McNeill, Ann Pancake, Breece D'J Pancake, Jayne Anne Phillips, Timothy Russell, Mary Lee Settle, A. E. Stringer, and Meredith Sue Willis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 273\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 9.2 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42129698160775,"sku":"9780937058725","price":28.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/d0e41ed8371a59619e9649a96fe82d48.webp?v=1732605055","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/backcountry-contemporary-writing-in-west-virginia-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}