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Weedeater: An Illustrated Novel

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Weedeater: An Illustrated NovelFinalist, 2019 Weatherford Award (Fiction) 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

Finalist, 2019 Weatherford Award (Fiction)

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.



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 02/18/2020
ISBN: 9780821424063
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.80d
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