The Distance from Slaughter County (eBook)

Lessons from Flyover Country

Steven Moore (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
160 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7396-7 (ISBN)

Infos

As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond. In those travels, he's seen what place can mean, specifically rural places, and how it follows us, changes us. What Moore has to say about rural places speaks to anyone who has driven a lonely road at night, with nothing but darkness as a cushion between them and the emptiness that surrounds. Place and how we define itand how it defines usis a through line throughout the collection of eleven essays. Moore writes about where we come from and the disconnection we often feel between each other: between veterans and nonveterans, between people of different political beliefs, between regions, between eras. These pieces build into a contemplative whole, one that is a powerful meditation on why where we come from means something and how we'll always bring where we are with us, no matter where we go.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.2.2023
• Zusatzinfo: bibl.
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: American gas industry • backlash in popular culture • BP Oil Spill • civilian-military divide • Come On Over • Corvallis, Oregon • Elliot Ackerman • Family Video • flyover country • Home Improvement • Ida Tarbell • Iowa City, Iowa • John Rockefeller • local Iowa history • masculinity in country music • Midwest • military experience • Pacific Northwest • phil klay • polarization in Oregon • Rural Iowa • Shania Twain • Slaughter County, Iowa • Standard Oil • Susan Faludi • The Forever War • veteran writing • video industry decline • violence and masculinity in popular culture • War Literature
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7396-7 / 1469673967
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7396-7 / 9781469673967