· The Evening Road by Laird Hunt | Editorial Reviews. Paperback (Reprint) $ Hardcover. $ Paperback. $ NOOK Book. $ Large Print. $ View All Available Formats Editions. Ship This Item — Qualifies for Free Shipping Buy Online, Pick up in Store. · Laird Hunt is the author of The Evening Road. His previous novel, Neverhome, was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection, an IndieNext selection, winner of the Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine and The Bridge prize, and a finalist for the Prix Femina Etranger. A resident of Boulder, CO, he is on the faculty in the creative writing PhD program at the University of Brand: Little, Brown and Company. I imagine Laird Hunt must have looked at that photo several times when writing The Evening Road, his historical novel about a lynching in the fictional Marvel, Indiana in Augu A photographer who was there captured the crowd of avid, celebratory white people posing for the camera beneath their bodies/5.
The three loosely related novels Laird Hunt has published since Kind One, Neverhome, and The Evening Road-are perhaps my favorite body of work by an American www.doorway.ru Evening Road is difficult subject matter-its story revolves around a historical lynching in Indiana-but its two women narrators are both intensely memorable characters, and through them Hunt deftly explores both the. Writer and translator, Laird Hunt, author of several novels including the award-winning Kind One and Never Home. Plot in a Box: There's a lynching happening over in Marvel, Indiana, and everyone is going. Invent a new title for this book: I would call it: Three Women and a Lynching. Read this if you like(d): The Help or To Kill a Mockingbird. The Evening Road Laird Hunt £, paperback, Vintage Publishing ISBN: Buy. by Anna Girling. Book of the Month: The Evening Road by Laird Hunt Octo | by Anna Girling. The lynching of two black men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, in Marion, Indiana on August 7, casts a long shadow. While lynchings were more common.
His new novel, The Evening Road, is a response to those murders and the atmosphere that surrounds them. As much as Meeropol’s poem, it is an attempt to blend the particular and the universal. Two women, two secrets#58; one desperate and extraordinary day. In the high heat of an Indiana summer, news spreads fast. When Marvel, the local county seat, plans to lynch three young black men, word travels faster. It is August, , the height of the Jim Crow era, and the prospect of the. The Evening Road Laird Hunt. Little, Brown, $26 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. BEA A Civil War Female Voice: Laird Hunt; OTHER BOOKS.
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