The distance from Slaughter County : lessons from flyover country /
"In a country as vast as the United States, place looms large. Steven Moore, a former soldier, writes about place, explicitly rural places, in a way that transcends specificity and speaks to the universal: whether the Midwest, Appalachia, or remote West, what Moore has to say about rural places...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2023]
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| Summary: | "In a country as vast as the United States, place looms large. Steven Moore, a former soldier, writes about place, explicitly rural places, in a way that transcends specificity and speaks to the universal: whether the Midwest, Appalachia, or remote West, what Moore has to say about rural places speaks to anyone who has driven a lonely road at night, with nothing but darkness as a cushion between them and the emptiness that surrounds. Place and how we define it-and how it defines us-is a through line throughout the collection of eleven essays. Moore writes about where we come from and the disconnection we often feel between each other: between veterans and non-veterans, between people of different political beliefs, between regions, between eras"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 151 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781469673950 1469673959 |