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The balm of Gilead tree : new and selected stories
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Stories on working-class people in North Carolina. In The Ratchet, a truck driver descending a mountain discovers his brakes do not work, while in The Bullnoser an unemployed worker makes a living ...
Stories on working-class people in North Carolina. In The Ratchet, a truck driver descending a mountain discovers his brakes do not work, while in The Bullnoser an unemployed worker makes a living blackmailing a farmer who is dumping toxic wastes.
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- Creator
- Robert Morgan
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Frankfort, KY : Gnomon Press, 1999
- Physical Details
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- 344 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780917788734, 0917788737
- OCLC
- ocm42830745
- The tracks of Chief de Soto -- Poinsett's bridge -- Kuykendall's gold -- Little Willie -- A brightness new & welcoming -- Pisgah -- Dark corner -- 1916 flood -- Murals -- The welcome -- Tailgunner -- Death crown -- The ratchet -- Sleepy gap -- The bullnoser -- A taxpayer & a citizen -- The balm of Gilead tree