Weedeater : an illustrated novel /

Weedeater : an illustrated novel /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gipe, Robert, author.
Imprint:	Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2018] © 2018
Description:	vii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky -- Fiction. Dysfunctional families -- Fiction. Drug abuse -- Fiction. Coal mines and mining. Drug abuse. Dysfunctional families. Kentucky. Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11552551

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Other authors / contributors:	Ohio University. Press, publisher.
ISBN:	9780821423097 0821423096 9780821446256
Summary:	"Weedeater is a contemporary story of love and loss told by a pair of eastern Kentucky mountaineers. Gene is a lovelorn lawnman who bears witness to the misadventures of a family entangled in drugs, artmaking, and politics, a family beset by environmental and self-destruction. And a young mother, Dawn Jewell, is at the center of the family. She spends the pages of Weedeater searching--for lost family members, lost youth, lost community, and lost heart. Weedeater is a story about how we put our lives back together when we lose the things we thought we couldn't bear losing, how we find new purpose in what we thought were scraps and trash caught in the weeds. Weedeater picks up six years after the end of Robert Gipe's first novel, Trampoline, and continues the story of the people of Canard County, Kentucky. In Weedeater, the reader finds Canard County living through the last hurrah of the coal industry and the most turbulent and deadly phase of the community's battle with opioid abuse. The events it chronicles are frantic, but its voice is by turns taciturn and angry, filled with humor and stoic grace"--

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Summary:	A finalist for the 2019 Weatherford Award in Fiction, Weedeater is a contemporary story of love and loss told by a pair of eastern Kentucky mountaineers: Gene, the lovelorn landscaper who bears witness to the misadventures of a family entangled in drugs, artmaking, and politics, a family beset by both environmental and self-destruction; and Dawn Jewell, a young mother searching--for lost family members, lost youth, lost community, and lost heart. Picking up six years after the end of Robert Gipe's acclaimed first novel, Trampoline , in Weedeater , the reader finds Canard County living through the last hurrah of the coal industry and the most turbulent and deadly phase of the community's battle with opioid abuse. The events Gipe chronicles are frantic. They are told through a voice by turns taciturn and angry, yet also balanced with humor and stoic grace. Weedeater is a story about how we put our lives back together when we lose the things we thought we couldn't bear losing, how we find new purpose in what we thought were scraps and trash caught in the weeds.
Physical Description:	vii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:	9780821423097 0821423096 9780821446256