Author : J. T. Ledbetter
Publisher : Stephen F. Austin University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Book Synopsis Death by Violin by : J. T. Ledbetter
Download or read book Death by Violin written by J. T. Ledbetter and published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ledbetter's writing is often about people on the small farms of Southern Illinois, Nebraska, and the Palouse in Southeast Washington who have lost their ability or inclination to talk to each other, having been beaten down by harsh weather, or poor crops. John Van Doren has called his work "a report of a vanishing world that was always achingly inarticulate and therefore of violent heart. " There is humor of course, as there is in any place in any time, but it is often short-lived, and a feeling of terror is never far beneath the surface. And throughout, there is that strange farm silence that covers land and the people of the prairies--places Ledbetter both feared and loved.