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In Stone Man Mountain a multigenerational saga brimming with character andincident Annabel Thomas explores struggles of truly epic proportions betweencity and country modernization and tradition love and power violence andcreativity. When in 1910 York Mendes grandmother moves him from the hills ofsoutheastern Ohio to a town in the flatlands the boy is glad to leave hisAppalachian heritage behind. Raised on Horatio Alger stories and tales of hiscunning politician grandfather York comes to enjoy city life while studyingveterinary medicine and reigning as a star athlete at the university. From timeto time he must return to the hill country to look after his inheritedproperty but he is careful to avoid being snagged by any mountain girl especially Dissa Marie Lovett who plainly sees him as a means to gettingherself out of the hills. When Dissa finally does escape she rejoices buteventually she realizes that she has left behind not only the Appalachians butalso her identity and her moral and spiritual framework. It is Dissas artistdaughter Rohanna who returns to the hills. Crippled physically andemotionally by a friends betrayal she is drawn to Tavis Clendennin aschoolteacher and blacksmith who shows her how strip mining is destroying theland. When the mysterious murders of local children remind Rohanna of her ownpast traumas she withdraws into herself afraid to trust anyone. Onlygradually in learning how to turn her agrarian roots into art does Rohannafind meaning for her life and a way to live in the company of others. Spanningforty years and set against a richly textured background Stone Man Mountain isa thoroughly engrossing novelthat combines narrative power an unwaveringcommand of voice and dialect and remarkable insight into human frailties andstrengths. «
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