age ~68
from Houston, TX
Lost Highway tells the story of Sapper Reeves, a gifted country musician and songwriter working the rainy backroads and forlorn taverns of the southern mountains in the years after World War II. Leaving his wife and son behind in his small West Virginia hometown, he is able to make only a paltry liv...
Author
Richard Currey
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
258
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
ISBN #
0395521025
EAN Code
9780395521021
ISBN #
8
The Sixties is a powerful literary anthology written by individuals who witnessed and participated in that revolutionary decade. Their stories, recollected in relative tranquility, illuminate this remarkable time, lifting the curtain of amnesia and media distortion that has been triggered by the dec...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
ISBN #
0814325580
EAN Code
9780814325582
ISBN #
6
Crossing Over, one of the most beautiful and terrifying works to be written about Vietnam, launched Richard Currey's literary career. This collection of prose poems, vignettes of life during wartime, was begun shortly after Currey finished a four-year stint as a Navy corpsman. It was selected as bes...
Author
Richard Currey
Binding
Paperback
Pages
104
Publisher
Clark City Pr
ISBN #
0944439217
EAN Code
9780944439210
ISBN #
3
The lives of the working class in West Virginia—a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed—are explored in this powerful yet tender collection of six short stories and a novella. They depict an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won digni...
Author
Richard Currey
Binding
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
Santa Fe Writer's Project
ISBN #
1939650054
EAN Code
9781939650054
ISBN #
2
A devastating portrait of war in all its horror, brutality, and mindlessness, this extraordinary novel is written in beautifully cadenced prose. A combat medic in Vietnam faces the chaos of war, set against the tranquil scenes of family life back home in small-town America. This young man's rite of ...
Author
Richard Currey
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
210
Publisher
Santa Fe Writer's Project
ISBN #
1
Including the novella "The Love of A Good Woman", this collection of stories focuses on the working class in West Virginia. From an epileptic and a train engineer, to coal miners and outlaws, the author depicts an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won dignity.
Author
Richard Currey
Binding
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
Vintage
ISBN #
0679734651
EAN Code
9780679734659
ISBN #
4
Author
Richard Currey
Binding
Audio Cassette
Publisher
Amer Audio Prose Library Inc
ISBN #
1556443595
EAN Code
9781556443596
ISBN #
5