
Description
Product Details
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Publish Date | November 20, 2015 |
Pages | 336 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780821421536 |
Dimensions | 8.9 X 5.9 X 0.8 inches | 0.9 pounds |
About the Author
Robert Gipe lives and works in Harlan County, Kentucky. Pop is his third Ohio University Press novel. His first, Trampoline, won the 2016 Weatherford Award for Appalachian novel of the year. His second novel, Weedeater, was a Weatherford finalist. For the past thirty years he has worked in arts-based organizing and is the founding coproducer of the Higher Ground community performance series. He has contributed to numerous journals and anthologies, is a playwright, and is currently a script consultant on a forthcoming television show based on Beth Macy's Dopesick. Author photo by Amelia Kirby.
Reviews
-- Silas House, author of Clay's Quilt and Eli the Good
"I fear this book. I'm in love with this book. I'm laughing out loud at this book. I am knocked to my knees in grief by this book. One of the most powerful works of contemporary fiction I've read in years. I'll never forget Dawn Jewell. I'll never escape Canard County."--Ann Pancake, author of Strange as this Weather Has Been and Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley
"Rare is the novel that delivers on all that is promised by fans or by the carefully curated blurbs featured on its cover. But, in my mind, Trampoline fulfills these promises, portraying Appalachia in a manner that falls prey neither to the demeaning stereotypes nor the romanticized clichés that are commonly associated with the region and its literature."--Zackary Vernon, Cold Mountain Review
"In 1980... John Kennedy Toole's classic, A Confederacy of Dunces, was published by the Louisiana State University Press. The following year it won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. That may have been the last time a university press introduced a major American voice--the last time, that is, until now.... Trampoline is a new American masterpiece."
--Knoxville News Sentinel
"There are the books you like, and the books you love, and then there are the ones you want to hold to your heart for a minute after you turn the last page. Robert Gipe's illustrated novel Trampoline is one of those--not just well written, which it is; and not just visually appealing, which the wonderfully deadpan black-and-white drawings make sure of; but there is something deeply lovable about it, an undertow of affection you couldn't fight if you wanted to. ...Gipe deftly avoids every single cliché that could trip such a story up, which includes having a pitch-perfect ear for dialect and making it into something marvelous." --Lisa Peet, Library Journal's "What We're Reading"
"A story that left my heart at once warmed and shattered, Trampoline rides the razor's edge of raw beauty. This is Appalachia illuminated with a light uniquely its own. I dare say Robert Gipe has invented his own genre."--David Joy, author of Where All Light Tends to Go
"Fascinating, honest, and sometimes darkly comic...The consciousness of the mountain itself and the animals on it become the quiet heart of this loud and heartbreaking book."--Orion
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