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Against the country a novel

"Set in the Virginia pines, and overrun with failed parents, racist sex offenders, cast-off priests, and suicidal chickens, this novel challenges literary convention even as it attacks our national myth: that the rural naturally engenders good, while the urban breeds an inevitable sin"--Du...

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Main Author: Metcalf, Ben (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House, [2015]
Edition: First Edition.
Subjects:
Country life > Fiction.
City and town life > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Virginia > Fiction.
Psychological fiction > Virginia
Bildungsromans > Virginia.
Summary: "Set in the Virginia pines, and overrun with failed parents, racist sex offenders, cast-off priests, and suicidal chickens, this novel challenges literary convention even as it attacks our national myth: that the rural naturally engenders good, while the urban breeds an inevitable sin"--Dust jacket flap.
Physical Description: 328 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781400062690 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
1400062691 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
Author Notes: Ben Metcalf (1966-?) was born in Illinois and raised in that state and later in rural Virginia. He was for many years the literary editor of Harper's Magazine . He has since taught at Columbia University's School of the Arts and joined the Lapham's Quarterly editorial board. His writing has appeared in The Baffler, Harper's Magazine, The Best American Essays, and elsewhere.

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