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On a struggling farm in 1930s Oklahoma, Maxine "Mackie" Spoon and her sister Etta keep secrets from each other and their parents. Etta - firebrand and rebel, who dreams of fleeing home for some grand adventure - knows the truth about her sister's parentage. Mackie - shy, hobbled, the dutiful sister - knows Etta has a secret lover. The two are driven further apart by the arrival of Audie, an Indian orphan who becomes the object of both sisters' attentions. When their mother dies In a tragic accident, and dust storms force their father to sell his land, the sisters leave home in search of a future. Spare, powerful, with descriptive passages of haunting beauty, "What the Thunder Said" is the long-awaited second novel by one of our most acclaimed novelists and storytellers.
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"""What the Thunder Said"" is sublime: deep and rich and risky and complicated. Peery's characters span age and gender and type, but whether privileged or pocked, they all face some sort of exile, and Peery's compassion for the flawed and noble alike illustrates her fine understanding of human nature. You can't write like this unless you have a big and worn-in heart." --Sheri Reynolds, author of ""Firefly Cloak"" and ""The Rapture of Canaan"" "Anyone who has tried to farm the hardpan of fiction knows, on looking up, stunned, from the center of any paragraph of her prose, that Peery has never, ever, been a new writer. Like most sudden sensations, she would probably tell us that she has been working this soil for much of her life. Her fiction, anyway, declares it. I cannot imagine a physical or psychological moment she cannot create with authority, permanence, and wisdom." --- Frederick Busch, author of "Rescue Missions, North, "and" The Night Inspector""" "" "" ""
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National Book Award finalist Janet Peery is the author of "The River Beyond the World "and the story collection "Alligator Dance." She has received National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, a Whiting Writers Award, and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her short stories have been widely published. A native of Kansas, she now lives in Virginia.
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- PublisherSt Martin's Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0312252633
- ISBN 13 9780312252632
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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What the Thunder Said: A Novella and Stories
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Book Description New Trade. Condition: New. By the end of this novel's prologue, it is abundantly clear that Ms. Peery's punch lies in her instincts as a short story writer. She is swift and direct, disarming and lyric. Her manner of speaking-through the voices of her dustbowl/depression-era characters-is an identification with the stubborn reticence and perseverance born of that era: 'When she swung into the driver's seat and shut the door, he wondered why, although the day had gone crosswise to his plan, he felt so oddly gleeful. It wasn't just his shriven feet or that they'd dealt with one another to the metes and bounds of their imperfect powers, or that the fire he'd felt to say his piece had come to smoke.' As far as plot goes, Peery's story centers on the Spoon family-McHenry, Billie Ann, and daughters Mackie and Etta. Theirs is a nerve-strung and seemingly doomed clan, riddled with secrets and unable to communicate the love their blood carries. Peery depends on the elder Mackie to tell the bulk of the story-an initially surprising choice until Mackie's inner and outward trajectories are more fully revealed. Though over half of the book is from Mackie's perspective, Etta, McHenry, Jesse (Mackie's son), Georgette (Etta's daughter), an apparently unrelated middle-aged radiologist, and a retired judge have their say. A novel-in-stories, What the Thunder Said is painfully beautiful, and sharply funny to boot. With the verve of Flannery O'Connor and an eloquence akin to Wendell Berry, Peery magically pulls together these disparate lives by the sheer power of their inconstant, dazzling humanity. 306 pp. Seller Inventory # 3016
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