{"product_id":"community-across-time-rebecca-godwin-9781952271823","title":"Community Across Time: Robert Morgan's Words for Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the first book-length considerations of the Appalachian writer Robert Morgan.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One of the first book-length studies of Robert Morgan, \u003ci\u003eCommunity across Time\u003c\/i\u003e considers the Appalachian writer's explorations of memory, family history, and landscape. It provides a study of all of Morgan's fiction to date, as well as a chapter on his poetry and some reference, where appropriate, to his nonfiction. Rebecca Godwin examines the family history that informs much of this body of work, offering an extended biographical essay that ties characters and plot details to Morgan's ancestors' lives and to his own experiences growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. \u003cp\u003e Religious rifts, economic hardships, class conflicts, the place of women and Indigenous peoples, and the failure of humans to recognize the divinity of the natural world are among the motifs centering Morgan's writing. \u003ci\u003eCommunity across Time\u003c\/i\u003e explores those themes as it looks to Morgan's relationship to the Appalachian South. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca Godwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1952271827\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952271823\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e West Virginia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d","brand":"Rebecca Godwin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070006128895,"sku":"9781952271823","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4de1e56a-9b68-46a4-84c9-8600b43e5751.jpg?v=1685427794","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/community-across-time-rebecca-godwin-9781952271823","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}