Newfound
Autor Jim Wayne Milleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 aug 2026
Originally published in 1989, this Gnomon Press edition was released in 1996.
In Newfound, Jim Wayne Miller offers a lyrical, plain-spoken coming-of-age story set in Appalachian Tennessee. In episodic vignettes, young Robert navigates his parents’ divorce, life on his grandparents’ farms, and seasonal rhythms. By age seventeen he leaves Newfound Creek for Berea College, shaped by family lore and hard-won lessons. In 1993 Miller published a sequel: His First, Best Country.
In Newfound, Jim Wayne Miller offers a lyrical, plain-spoken coming-of-age story set in Appalachian Tennessee. In episodic vignettes, young Robert navigates his parents’ divorce, life on his grandparents’ farms, and seasonal rhythms. By age seventeen he leaves Newfound Creek for Berea College, shaped by family lore and hard-won lessons. In 1993 Miller published a sequel: His First, Best Country.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780917788598
ISBN-10: 0917788591
Pagini: 224
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Gnomon Press
ISBN-10: 0917788591
Pagini: 224
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Gnomon Press
Recenzii
"Readers of every age will delight in its wonderful characters and graceful, exact writing—Newfound is an arrow straight for your heart."—Lee Smith
"In a beautiful, plainspoken novel of an Appalachian boy's coming-of-age, Kentucky poet Miller tells of a family drama rooted in daily work, the turn of the seasons, and the stories people share."—Booklist
"Appalachian poet and scholar Jim Wayne Miller, one of the most brilliant and best-loved writers in the mountain region, belongs to that rare and blessed literary species: the writer who is admired by the average reader as well as by the academic community. . . . All the characters who came to life in Miller's early work are present in more substantial form in his fiction: the bee woman, the grandfather who taught him farming, Aunt Vi with her love letters, and the mountain family who lives forever in Miller's work."—Sharyn McCrumb
"Unlike so many novels about Appalachia which rely on dialect and inclusion of folk stereotypes Newfound is a collection of careful and gentle portraits of people and events drawn against the beauties of the Appalachian countryside."—School Library Journal
"Perhaps the real pleasure of Newfound is Jim Wayne Miller's sense of irony, his sustaining humor that invites readers to laugh with, but never at, his people, his world."—Wilma Dykeman
Notă biografică
Jim Wayne Miller (1936–1996), a native of the mountain country of North Carolina, was a professor of German language and literature at Western Kentucky University for thirty-three years. He served as a consultant to Appalachian studies programs in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio and was a visiting professor of Appalachian studies at what is now the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center at Berea College. He received multiple awards, and his books include Copperhead Cane; Dialogue with a Dead Man; The Mountains Have Come Closer; Vein of Words; Nostalgia for 70; Brier, His Book; Newfound; and His First, Best Country.
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In Newfound, Jim Wayne Miller offers a lyrical, plain-spoken coming-of-age story set in Appalachian Tennessee. In episodic vignettes, young Robert navigates his parents’ divorce, life on his grandparents’ farms, and seasonal rhythms. By age seventeen he leaves Newfound Creek for Berea College, shaped by family lore and hard-won lessons.