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| Original Title: | Hunter's Horn |
| ISBN: | 087013437X (ISBN13: 9780870134371) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Harriette Arnow
Paperback | Pages: 375 pages Rating: 4.32 | 180 Users | 40 Reviews
Define About Books Hunter's Horn
| Title | : | Hunter's Horn |
| Author | : | Harriette Arnow |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 375 pages |
| Published | : | December 31st 1997 by Michigan State University Press (first published 1949) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. American. Southern |
Representaion Concering Books Hunter's Horn
Michigan State University Press is proud to announce the re-release of Harriette Simpson Arnow's 1949 novel Hunter's Horn, a work that Joyce Carol Oates called "our most unpretentious American masterpiece."In Hunter's Horn, Arnow has written the quintessential account of Kentucky hill people—the quintessential novel of Southern Appalachian farmers, foxhunters, foxhounds, women, and children. New York Times reviewer Hirschel Brickell declared that Arnow "writes...as effortlessly as a bird sings, and the warmth, beauty, the sadness and the ache of life itself are not even once absent from her pages."
Arnow writes about Kentucky in the way that William Faulkner writes about Mississippi, that Flannery O'Connor writes about Georgia, or that Willa Cather writes about Nebraska—with studied realism, with landscapes and characters that take on mythic proportions, with humor, and with memorable and remarkable attention to details of the human heart that motivate literature.
Rating About Books Hunter's Horn
Ratings: 4.32 From 180 Users | 40 ReviewsEvaluate About Books Hunter's Horn
Through the first half of this book, the reader is led to believe it's about Nunn Ballew, and his struggles to outwit the mysterious red fox, King Devil. But, I felt it was the story of his wife, Milly. A very gut-wrenching tale of the hard scrabble life in the Kentucky hills shortly before WWII.An epic American story set in the 1930s and 40s. Some great masterful historical fiction.
I got yer Great American Novel right here.In the years just prior to American entry into World War II, Nunn Ballew is raising his family, trying to restore the family land that he bought back with money earned in the mines, and hunting an especially pernicious red fox, known as King Devil, who has been plaguing the district and killing far too much livestock since Ballew's return five years earlier. Nunn is obsessed with King Devil, and during fox season, it's a major distraction from needed
"The happenchance of it all." This is regional fiction at its finest. Forget Faulkner. Read this.
This was an exceptionally good deep dive into a time and place in history, following an Appalachian family during the great depression. Great characters and a compelling story.
Nunn Ballew, his long suffering wife Milly, and their young family featuring mainly their eldest daughter Suse, are at the center of this circa 1940's novel which is set in the hills of Kentucky. Farm life is desperately tough especially on the women since the men are distracted by hounds, fox hunting, and moonshine. Things really take a downward turn for the Bellew's when their old hound dog Zing dies and Nunn sells the few valuable livestock (basically the families food supply) they own to buy
set in rural KY (not clear where) Nunn Ballew is a simple farmer who loves to hunt fox with his hounds, at the expense of the farm and large family. This novel is the 2nd in a series of 3 novels, though I didnt know that the three were part of a series originally. Very, very descriptive paragraphs. Not at all sure that by todays writing standards that this author would even be noticed because detail is so involved. Very interesting descriptions of hounds hunting/foxes evading the houndswonder
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