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Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage
Gap Creek The Story of a Marriage
Author: Robert Morgan
Young Julie Harmon works “hard as a man,” they say, so hard that at times she’s not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better. — But Ju...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780743203340
ISBN-10: 0743203348
Publication Date: 2000
Pages: 325
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  • Currently 4.8/5 Stars.
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4.8 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 12
Wow - this is one everyone should read just to understand how easy we have it today! This is a deeply moving novel, and although it is set in the depths of poverty and difficulty, it offers a glimmer of hope, as well. The characters are intensely drawn.
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Helpful Score: 9
I loved this book! So different from most of today's fiction. The author notes at the end: "I tell my students that you do not write living fiction by attempting to transcribe actual events onto the page. You create a sense of real characters and a real story by putting down one vivid detail, one exact phrase, at a time. The fiction is imagined, but if it is done well, it seems absolutely true, as real as the world around us." I say he is a master, if this book is any indication.
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Helpful Score: 9
i read this, because my mother in law loves Oprah, so whatever Oprah raves about, she buys and passes it on to me, for the most part these books do not float my boat, but this one sat in my night stand for a year, and i finally picked it up and tried it... i'm glad I did, as the story was gripping, not a light fun happy book, which is what I like in something I read before i fall asleep each night.. this is a great story of a time when things were hard, and life was full of challenges that required more strength than I would ever have! It was a good book that I found myself thinking about after I read it. I passed it on to my mom and she loved it.
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Helpful Score: 6
Wonderful story of a young married couple. I actually had tears in my eyes at times. Also a rather quick read.
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Helpful Score: 5
This is the second time I've read this book. There are parts and chapters that have stayed in my mind for a few years - it's that good and that memorable. Remarkable story-telling.
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From Amazon.com:
Robert Morgan's Gap Creek opens with one wrenching death and ends with another. In between, this novel of turn-of-the-century Appalachian life works in fire, flood, swindlers, sickness, and starvation--a truly biblical assortment of plagues, all visited on the sturdy shoulders of 17-year-old Julie Harmon. "Human life don't mean a thing in this world," she concludes. And who could blame her? "People could be born and they could suffer, and they could die, and it didn't mean a thing.... The world was exactly like it had been and would always be, going on about its business." For Julie, that business is hard physical labor. Fortunately, she's fully capable of working "like a man"--splitting and hauling wood, butchering hogs, rendering lard, planting crops, and taking care of the stock. Even when Julie meets and marries handsome young Hank Richards, there's no happily-ever-after in store. Nothing comes easy in Julie Harmon's world, and their first year together is no exception.
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This was such a good book that once I had time to sit down and get into it, I couldn't put it down.
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A story about a hardworking girl who has a lot of tragedy in her young life, how she survives and learns from it all.
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This is one of the my most favorite books ever. It is s simple story with a lot of meaning.
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Gap Creek was a wonderful story about the commitment of marriage and the trials of real life. I loved it and would definitely read more from this author.
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I didn't enjoy this story at all. It as the story of a marriage but not a love story. The writers descriptions of the hard life of poor people in the era was excellent.
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Dull, didn't really care about the characters or believe in their love.


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