His First Best Country Author:Jim Wayne Miller Novel. "HIS FIRST, BEST COUNTRY is one of the most beautifully written novels I have ever read..."-Gurney Norman, Appalachian Heritage. Whether describing the natural wonders of the Appalachian Mountains or a drunk friend passing out on a car's horn, Jim Wayne Miller's language is right on target: "And they'd leave the fire to follow the hounds,... more » their blood aroused, their noses tingling with all the possibilities of weed smoke and awakening earth. Hurrying after the hounds, suddenly believers again, faith in the woods restored by a wildness that entered them in the music of baying hounds." Joyce Dyer of Appalachian Journal writes, "Jim Wayne Miller is wonderful when he goes to the core of what is most painful and most difficult about our relationship to home, about our relationship to the land that has sustained us, to the people that have loved or tried to love us, to our neighbors, and to ourselves.""His First, Best Country is one of the most beautifully written novels I have ever read. ... In the harsh social climate of American at century's end, such lyrical prose is like a drink of water from a mountain spring." --Gurney Norman, Appalacian Heritage.« less
ISBN-13: 9780917788543 ISBN-10: 0917788540 Pages:216 Edition:1st ed Rating: