Last Mountain Dancer

Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-946684-51-6
Verlag: West Virginia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 773 g

This gonzo-style metamemoir follows Chuck Kinder on a wild tour of the back roads of his home state of West Virginia, where he encounters Mountain State legends like Sid Hatfield, Dagmar, Robert C. Byrd, the Mothman, Chuck Yeager, Soupy Sales, Don Knotts, and Jesco White, the “Dancing Outlaw.”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kinder, Chuck

Über Autor(innen)

Chuck Kinder is the author of four novels—Snakehunter, The Silver Ghost, Honeymooners, and Last Mountain Dancer—and three collections of poetry—Imagination Motel, All That Yellow, and Hot Jewels. As a professor of creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh for more than three decades, Kinder served as the director of the creative writing program and helped foster the careers of Michael Chabon, Earl H. McDaniel, Chuck Rosenthal, Gretchen Moran Laskas, and Keely Bowers. He now lives in Key Largo, Florida, with Diane Cecily, his wife of over forty years.