Ebook {Epub PDF} Whisper Hollow by Chris Cander

Whisper Hollow is one of those books. I’m blown away, honestly. Chris Cander has created characters with immortal souls.” ~Peter Geye, author of The Lighthouse Road “The men in Chris Cander’s Whisper Hollow toil underground, in the dark and dangerous coal mines of West Virginia/5(66). Chris Cander has created characters with immortal souls." - Jamie Ford, New York Times best-selling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet This information about Whisper Hollow shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter.  · Cander paints a colorful portrait of a multi-ethnic, multi-generational West Virginia coal camp: a heaven of opportunity to some, a hell of stunted choices to others.” —Marie Manilla, author of The Patron Saint of Ugly “The men in Chris Cander’s Whisper Hollow toil underground, in the dark and dangerous coal mines of West Virginia. But Brand: Other Press, LLC.

Whisper Hollow was picked up by a traditional publisher but the author wasn't so lucky with '11 Stories', her third novel. The book wasn't quite as commercial as 'Whisper Hollow'. But rather than giving up on it, Chris Cander joined forces with a few of her friends and they formed 'Rubber Tree Press', their own publishing company. "Whisper Hollow" is wonderful. It's carefully written, unpredictable, sexy when it should be and scary when it has to be. Religion plays a significant role, winding through the plot like veins of coal in a mine. In its depiction of long-buried family secrets and the cost of keeping them, Cander's book channels Faulkner. Review: Chris Cander, Whisper Hollow. Chris Cander's Whisper Hollow opens on an October morning in in Verra, West Virginia. A young Myrthen Bergmann is playing a game of tug-of-war with her twin sister Ruth. They are ostensibly fighting over a doll, tugging it back and forth near the top of the cellar stairs.

“[A] sweeping novel Cander divinely delves into multiple points of view, crafting a collage of vibrant, layered characters while charting six decades of poignant, precise moments. A distinctive novel that sublimely measures the distressed though determined heartbeat of a small mountain community.”. WHISPER HOLLOW. by Chris Cander ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ma. Verra, West Virginia, is the setting of this sweeping novel, in which first- and second-generation immigrants with coal-stained hands and blackened lungs forge new lives for their growing families amid secrets that run as deep and dark as the coal mines. Short bio: Chris Cander is the bestselling author of THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO, which was named an Indie Next Great Read in both hardcover and paperback and which the New York Times called, “immense, intense and imaginative,” WHISPER HOLLOW, also named an Indie Next Great Read, and 11 STORIES, named by Kirkus as one of the best books of and winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards for fiction.