Robert Morgan, Author . Algonquin $24.95 (323p) ISBN 978-1-56512-303-8
Morgan follows up his bestselling Gap Creek
with another tale of the Carolina wilderness in the 1920s. Muir Powell is three years younger than his brother, Moody, but the two are light years apart in temperament and attitude. Muir is his widowed...
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Robert Morgan, Author . Algonquin/Shannon Ravenel $24.95 (309p) ISBN 978-1-56512-356-4
A starred or boxed review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred or boxed review.BRAVE ENEMIESRobert Morgan. Algonquin/Shannon...
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Robert Morgan, TitleTown (Midpoint, dist), $17.95 paper (176p) ISBN 9780982720608
Morgan's discovery of drug-dealing in his daughter's school sends him on a vigilante quest for justice that takes him far beyond backwoods drug dealers. Soon he's chasing down drug runners, going undercover, and infiltrating the mafia, all without...
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Robert Morgan, Author Peachtree Publishers $15.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-934601-71-9
This outstanding collection of short stories is award-winning poet Morgan's first work of fiction. Set largely in the Southern Appalachians, they range in perspective from deeply felt views of the Civil War to harsh glimpses of contemporary life....
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Robert Morgan, Author Peachtree Publishers $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56145-049-7
As the title here implies, mountains are indomitable; they exist outside of human history. But the first-person narrators of these 11 stories, shadowed by the peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains, are not to be deterred from declaiming individual ``oral
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Robert Morgan, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56512-105-8
Eloquent, wise and heartbreaking, Morgan's second novel (after The Hinterlands) offers insightful truths about family life and marital relationships through the twangy voice of narrator Ginny Peace, who lives in North Carolina mountain country...
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Robert Morgan, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $21.95 (356p) ISBN 978-1-56512-021-1
Morgan ( Green River ), a gifted poet as well as a fiction writer, aims for the tone of an Appalachian oral history in this ambitious novel whose origins are the stories told, over the years, by members of the writer's family, hailing from North...
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Robert Morgan, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $22.95 (326p) ISBN 978-1-56512-242-0
The ordinary folk of Appalachia are Morgan's subjects, and here he offers another compassionate tale of poor people enduring brutal working lives and harsh deprivations with stoic dignity. While not as memorable as The Truest Pleasure, this story of
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Robert Morgan. Algonquin, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56512-627-5
Morgan’s (Gap Creek) latest is a grittily entertaining, smartly paced narrative about a fugitive slave. It’s 1851, and 18-year-old house servant Jonah Williams decides to run away from the Williams corn plantation located near Greenville, S.C....
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Robert Morgan, Author, Rosemary Alexander, Read by, Robert Clotworthy, Read by , read by Rosemary Alexander and Robert Clotworthy. High Bridge $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56511-503-3
This coming-of-age tale is rather like a Cain and Abel saga, set in the Carolinas in the early '20s. Ginny, a widow, raises her children on prayer and homily. Moody, her older son, is a lazy, cynical bad boy who grows into a whoring, alcoholic...
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Robert Morgan, Author . Algonquin $29.95 (538p) ISBN 978-1-56512-455-4
Many historical figures are more interesting in reality than in myth. Daniel Boone was one of them. Brilliant explorer, trapper and pathfinder, renowned marksman and revolutionary militia officer, he was also a loner, parent, legislator, settler and
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Robert Morgan, Author, Ron McLarty, Read by, Ron Powers, With with Ron Powers, read by Ron McLarty. HighBridge $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56511-484-5
Obviously a brave man and an intriguing character, Morgan was glorified in a 1944 William Wyler documentary and was the subject of a somewhat less distinguished 1990 movie starring Matthew Modine. As commander of one of WWII's heavy B-17 bombers,
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Robert Morgan, Author, Ron Powers, With , with Ron Powers. Dutton $25.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-525-94610-6
Made famous in a 1944 William Wyler documentary—and inspiring a 1990 movie starring Matthew Modine, Harry Conick Jr. and Eric Stolz—Morgan, a B17F "Flying Fortress" pilot, here fleshes out his own story, together with Pulitzer...
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Robert Morgan, Author Gnomon Press $17.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-917788-73-4
Novelist (The Truest Pleasure), poet and short story writer Morgan displays an impressive command of American history and of language in this collection of new and selected stories. Arranged chronologically, from the 16th century to the present,...
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Robert Morgan.S. hannon Ravenal, $29.95 (468p) ISBN 978-1-56512-626-8
Morgan has made the Old West his preserve with the novel Gap Creek and a biography of Daniel Boone. Here he covers considerable ground, both geographical and temporal, tracing the lives of 10 Americans who played significant roles in the country's...
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Robert Morgan. Algonquin, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61620-161-6
Robert Morgan returns to his bestselling Gap Creek characters, the Richards family, as well as the Peace family from his earlier Appalachian story, The Truest Pleasure. Annie, the daughter of Gap Creek’s Julie and Hank, is married to Muir Peace, but
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