A collection of Stories twenty years in the making from celebrated Kentucky author Gurney Norman .
He is coeditor of Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes, and An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature..
Norman has received many honors for his work and is a widely known Appalachian literary and cultural advocate.
A native of eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia, he was the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University.
He is a professor of English at the University of Kentucky and a former Kentucky Poet Laureate.
Published by Old Cove Press About author(s): Gurney Norman is a novelist and short story writer whose works include Divine Right\'s Trip, Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories, Ancient Creek: A Folktale , and Allegiance.
From the coalfields of Appalachia to the center of the 1960s counterculture and back again to Kentucky, Norman\'s journey has been a life of many movements.
Allegiance follows Norman\'s/Collier\'s struggle to understand his working-class childhood and navigate midlife alcoholism and depression.
A selection of nonfiction pieces comprises the book\'s epilogue.
Spanning forty years of work, the Stories are told in the voice of Norman\'s fictional narrator, Wilgus Collier, or in stream-of-consciousness writing.
Allegiance is an autobiography told through stories, a personal journey into Norman\'s life, place, and consciousness.
The new edition features an introduction by the author, a foreword by Leatha Kendrick, and a cover painting by Appalachian artist Pam Oldfield Meade.
This is an expanded, jacketed hardcover edition of Allegiance , a collection of linked Stories by celebrated Kentucky author Gurney Norman .
A collection of Stories twenty years in the making from celebrated Kentucky author Gurney Norman
