Gone and the Going Away

by Maurice Manning

Book Overview

Welcome to "Fog Town Holler," Pulitzer Prize finalist Maurice Manning's glorious rendering of a landscape not unlike his native Kentucky. Conjuring this mythical place from his own roots and memories -- not unlike E. A. Robinson's Tilbury Town or Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County -- Manning celebrates and echoes the voices and lives of his beloved hill people.

In Fog Town Holler men have "funny names," like Tiny Too and Eula Loom. A fox is known...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547939957
• ISBN13: 9780547939957
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"