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Backwater Tales
Paperback
Publisher: Talmadge Walker
Published: Jan 18 2023
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.48 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Five novellas and short stories set in the American southeast. In Nashoba's Lament, an elderly Choctaw recalls his youth and the De Soto expedition. In The Pensioner, long after the war a Confederate veteran has to marry to get a pension. After finding a gold star in her mother's collection of knick-knacks, a young woman in Alabama learns some family secrets in Trespasses. Lost in the woods, a man discovers a ghost at an old abandoned home in The Well. Finally, a young man out of law school decides to run for Congress somewhere in Appalachia in Raising a Ruckus in the Greene River Valley.
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