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Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life

by Chuck Kinder

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ISBN13: 9780786716531
ISBN10: 0786716533
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On sabbatical from his professorship at the University of Pittsburgh, native West Virginian Chuck Kinder (portrayed as Grady Tripp in Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys and played by Michael Douglas in the film) makes a midlife pilgrimage to his homeland to re-imagine and reconnect with that fabled, fantastic country. Confronting the regrets and heartaches of his past, present, and future, Kinder seeks solace in the funny and raunchy family stories, lies, legends, and history that reside in West Virginia's haunted hills and the hollows of his memory. But more than anything, Kinder wants to live it up hillbilly style. Immersing himself among the lives of mountaineer characters, both the quick and the dead, the bad-boy author bears holy witness to the triumphs and misdeeds of the loafers and misfits, winos and oddball characters of his homeland. Readers will be astonished by tales of bloody mine wars, outlaws on the run, roadhouse romance, barroom brawlers, beer-joint ballerinas, and a man who calls himself the last mountain dancer. With mothmen, moonshiners, and family feudists, it's Planet West Virginia. Chuck Kinder's wild-ride rediscovery of his West Virginian roots is sure to quicken all of our hillbilly hearts.

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Mothmen, moonshiners, and family feudists mark Kinder's wild-ride rediscovery of his West Virginian roots through hard-earned lessons in love, loss, and honky-tonk outlaw life.

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9780786716531
Subtitle:
Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life
Author:
Kinder, Chuck
Publisher:
Da Capo Press
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Biography & Autobiography - Literary
Subject:
Regional Subjects - South
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Publication Date:
August 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
480
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8.76x5.72x1.26 in. 1.33 lbs.

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