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Crossing Over
In 1980, Richard Currey published Crossing Over to wide critical acclaim. Best described as flash fiction, Crossing Over is hybrid prose-poetry about one young man's journey through the Vietnam War. Adapted for the stage, and praised by antiwar activist Daniel Berrigan, these vignettes from the war-torn jungles changed the way America thought about the Vietnam Era.Crossing Over has long been regarded as one of the Vietnam Era's most evocative literary works. Cited by Library Journal as a "Best of the Small Presses," the prose poems and vignettes of Crossing Over formed the basis of Currey's 1988 novel Fatal Light, cited by Tim O'Brien as "one of the very best works of fiction to emerge from the Vietnam War."
Richard O. Currey and John Torrey Correspondence
Correspondence from Richard O. Currey to John Torrey, dated October 28, 1839. A young medical student from Tennessee, Currey was informed by one of his teachers that Torrey was interested in obtaining specimens of the flora of Tennessee. During a visit home Currey collected the plants, and now writes to offer Torrey a collection of between 150 and 200 specimens. He also inquires as to the quality of facilities and curriculum at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.
The Currey Family in the Hudson Highlands
Richard Currey (1679/1680-ca. 1722) was born in Scotland or New York or Eastchester, New York. He married twice, and moved from East- chester to Bedford, New York. Descendants and relatives lived in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, California and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to New Brunswick and elsewhere in Canada.
Lost Highway
Banjo player Sharp Reeves of West Virginia forms a trio and they hit the road. The novel describes their women, their successes and disappointments, and his descent into alcoholic depression. But the sight of his son, wounded in Vietnam, snaps him out of it.
The Wars of Heaven
The lives of the working class in West Virginia—a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed—are explored in this powerful yet tender collection of six short stories and a novella. They depict an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won dignity and are a lyrical rendering of times and places now largely gone—but the stirring clarity of people and landscape can persist in the reader's imagination.
Fatal Light
A devastating portrait of war in all its horror, brutality, and mindlessness, this extraordinary novel is written in beautifully cadenced prose. A combat medic in Vietnam faces the chaos of war, set against the tranquil scenes of family life back home in small-town America.aThis young manOCOs rite of passage is traced through jungle combat to malaria-induced fever visions to the purgatory of life in military-occupied Saigon.aAfter returning home from war to stay with his grandfather, he confronts his own shattered personal history and the mysterious human capacity for renewal."
The Wars of Heaven
The lives of the working class in West Virginia--a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed--are explored in this powerful yet tender collection of six short stories and a novella. They depict an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won dignity and are a lyrical rendering of times and places now largely gone--but the stirring clarity of people and landscape can persist in the reader's imagination.
Fatal Light
A combat medic in Vietnam faces the chaos of war, set against the tranquil scenes of family life back home in small-town America. After returning home from war to stay with his grandfather, he confronts his own shattered personal history and the mysterious human capacity for renewal.
