The Balm of Gilead Tree: New and Selected Stories

by Robert Morgan

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Stories on working-class people in North Carolina. In The Ratchet, a truck driver descending a mountain discovers his brakes do not work, while in The Bullnoser an unemployed worker makes a living blackmailing a farmer who is dumping toxic wastes.

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Acclaimed author of best-seller "Gap Creek". (Bowker Author Biography)

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3563 .O87147 .B35Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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