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We fear the unknown and nothing is more fearful than Death, but the tapestry we weave within our lives is much more colorful than the end game. The End of a Perfect Death showcases that color in these ten tales of the strange and wonderful. The Twilight Zone-like and musical stories are rich and vivid whether funny or sad, absurd or realistic.
Architect Jon Bernier's ruminations of his childhood love, a concert pianist, are shattered when he discovers that her memorial stone has been defaced. Soon, clandestine international drug concerns coupled with governmental illegalities are unexpectedly revealed, offering Jon a possible reprise as he learns that broken links and lives sometimes do stand a chance of being re-connected. This novel offers an intriguing multiple love story and unraveling mystery from a first-time novelist and brother to Sena Jeter Naslund.
Kentucky and Kentuckians are full of stories, which may be why so many present-day writers have Kentucky roots. Whether they left and returned, like Wendell Berry and Bobbie Ann Mason, or adopted Kentucky as home, like James Still and Jim Wayne Miller, or grew up and left for good, like Michael Dorris and Barbara Kingsolver, they have one connection: Kentucky has influenced their writing and their lives. L. Elisabeth Beattie explores this influence in twenty intimate interviews. Conversations with Kentucky Writers was more than three years in the making, as Beattie traveled across the state and beyond to capture oral histories on tape. Her exhaustive knowledge of these authors helped her dra...
A collection of eight stories, including I am Born, In the Free State, Burning Boy, How Do You Do, Mister Cat? and The Disobedience of Water.
The earliest ancestor of this family was John Jeter, who lived in Essex County (now Caroline), Virginia in 1704. Most of his earlier descen- dants were tobacco planters with large plantations and slaves as the major source of labor. Many descendants remained in Virginia while others began migrating southward to the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentuc- ky, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, California and elsewhere.