LONG MAN. by Amy Greene. BUY NOW FROM. AMAZON BARNES NOBLE LOCAL BOOKSELLER GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Email Address Subscribe Tweet. KIRKUS REVIEW. Crises abound in a small Tennessee town in , just days before a dam is set to flood it. The Tennessee Valley Authority was designed to help modernize the state during the Great. · ”Long Man” by Amy Greene. (Knopf/Knopf) But Greene focuses this intense novel on one mother — “a dangerous woman” — who has refused to move, even as the water www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. · Early on in Amy Greene’s aching, passionate and vivid new novel, “Long Man,” a character stands in the night, surveying all that will be lost to .
bOOk REVIEwS Amy greene. Long Man: A Novel. new york, n.y.: knopf, pages. hardcover. $ Reviewed by Jesse Graves In her much-anticipated second novel Long Man, Amy Greene takes up the challenge of creating a fictional account of the removal of citizens from their homes by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in the mids. No other cultural event affected so many lives in. Long Man {by Amy Greene} Long Man is near and dear to my heart because it's set in the 30's as TVA plans to flood an East TN town. (I live on such a lake, made from such a flooding.) When I sat down to read it last month, it felt like Christmas morning. Amy's writing is lyrical, haunting, memorable, and visual. Long Man: A novel. Amy Greene. out of "Amy Greene's Bloodroot can stand proudly beside Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle, two works which likewise examine the isometric push of the human spirit against the immovable forces of tyranny and poverty.
Amy Greene was born and raised in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, where she lives with her husband and two children. Her second novel Long Man will be published by Alfred A. Knopf Febru. Her first novel Bloodroot is available in bookstores and online. Author Interview. Link to Amy Greene's Website. Early on in Amy Greene’s aching, passionate and vivid new novel, “Long Man,” a character stands in the night, surveying all that will be lost to progress. “She had heard about a Depression. Greene is a special writer, and Long Man is a special book—a beautiful piece of work. How I long for more novels like hers.” —Steve Yarbrough, author of Prisoners of War and The Realm of Last Chances. From the Publisher.
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