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Annie Clyde Dodson and her three-year-old daughter Gracie are among the last holdouts in a tiny town, standing in the way of progress in the Tennessee River Valley. Just a few days before the Long Man river is scheduled to wash Yuneetah off the map, Gracie disappears one stormy evening. Did she simply wander off into the rain, or was she taken—perhaps by the mysterious drifter who has returned to his hometown on the verge of its collapse? Set against the backdrop of real-life historical events, Long Man is a searing portrait of a soon-to-be-scattered community brought together by change and crisis, and of one family facing a terrifying ticking clock.
Long Man (Vintage Contemporaries), by Amy Greene- Amazon Sales Rank: #123948 in Books
- Brand: Greene, Amy
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.97" h x .58" w x 5.11" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
From Booklist *Starred Review* Greene’s second novel revisits blue-collar Appalachia with the same haunting lyricism she brought to her magnificent first novel, Bloodroot (2010). In the summer of 1936, the Tennessee Valley Authority has determined to dam the river Long Man and flood the town of Yuneetah in eastern Tennessee in the name of progress. Just one day remains before the town will be flooded, and most of the citizens have been evacuated. But there are a handful of people who refuse to leave the land that has been in their familiesfor generations. Among them is Annie Clyde Dodson, who longs for her three-year-old daughter, Gracie, to grow up on her beautiful mountaintop farm. As a storm starts to rage, Gracie goes missing, and the sheriff, as well as Annie’s few remaining neighbors, must cover miles of wild country in search of the toddler. In addition, the mysterious Amos, an orphan who grew up in Yuneetah, has returned for one final act of vengeance. Greene, with searing eloquence, seems to channel the frustrations of generations of rural poor in this stark indictment of a soulless government hell-bent on destroying a long-standing community. Her stunning insight into a proud and insular people is voiced with cold clarity and burning anger. --Joanne Wilkinson
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A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“Searing. . . . [A] poetic literary thriller. . . . An engrossing blend of raw tension and gorgeous reflection.” —The Washington Post“Powerful. . . . Aching, passionate, and vivid.” —Daniel Woodrell, The New York Times Book Review"Swift, gorgeous and wickedly smart, Long Man is nearly perfect. . . . As compulsively readable as it is intellectually profound. . . . Greene is a major American novelist in waiting."--Minneapolis Star Tribune, Critics' Pick“Luminous. . . . In language as unadorned and lovely as a country quilt, Greene invites the reader deeply into the seclusion of the valley and the mountains above. A remarkable love letter to a forgotten time and place.” —The Atlanta Constitution “This book gives me hope for the future of the literary novel. . . . A virtually perfect blend of lyrical writing and page-turning plot. . . . Beautiful.” —Karen Sandstrom, The Plain Dealer“A story that forces us to examine our relationship with nature, our understanding of community and, significantly, of social class. . . . [Greene] lends this Depression-era story a moral and ethical vibrancy that we should all pay attention to.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “A tense tale of the sacrifices people make in the name of progress.” —New York Post “Exquisite . . . Greene’s prose is as mesmerizing as the story she weaves. Readers will never forget this vividly drawn landscape. . . . [The novel’s] breathtaking suspense and images will haunt me forever.” —Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life “Like Greene’s debut, Bloodroot, the prevailing tone of Long Man is solemn, elegiac. . . . Greene allows the back stories of this small but rich cast of characters to overlap in places, like thin pleats in a skirt.” —The Toronto Star “Greene even-handedly renders this lost and mostly forgotten world to perfection.” —The Free Lance-Star “Rich and absorbing. Equal parts mystery, family saga, and backwoods romance, Long Man captures the collision of hardscrabble folk with the unstoppable modern world.” —Stewart O’Nan, author of A Prayer for the Dying and Emily, Alone “Long Man reads like a painting—the kind that unravels from a scroll, with a landscape that moves through space and time. . . . Greene, born and raised in East Tennessee, evokes [beauty] with the simplest strokes.” —The Greenville News “Vibrant. . . . The novel grapples with real questions about our relationship to nature and the price of progress, even as it delivers a story as touching and timeless as a folk tale.” —Nashville Scene “One of the best young chroniclers of contemporary Appalachia. . . . Long Man dramatizes historical events that are still controversial today and raises issues that will resonate strongly.” —Mountain Xpress “A gem. . . . Long Man is so palpably real that I feel I’ve spent the last few days actually living in Greene’s corner of Depression-era Tennessee. It is a special book—a beautiful piece of work.” —Steve Yarbrough, author of Prisoners of War and The Realm of Last Chances
About the Author Amy Greene is the author of the national bestseller Bloodroot. She was born and raised in the foothills of East Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains, where she lives with her husband and two children.
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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful. A great American novel By Joseph Schuster Here in the US, we talk a lot about the notion of "the great American novel" -- what is it exactly, which books might we consider as such? One particular kind of great American novel sets vivid and compelling characters against difficult and perhaps impossible circumstances; John Steinbeck's GRAPES OF WRATH and the Depression, Norman Mailer's THE NAKED AND THE DEAD and World War 2, Karl Marlantes' MATTERHORN and Vietnam, Paul Harding's TINKERS and mortality and his ENON and the tragic death of a child.Amy Greene's LONG MAN is such a novel. Set in the middle 1930s in the mountains of Greene's native eastern Tennessee, the book centers on the residents near a river that the US Government has dammed in order to bring electricity to the largely poor population through the Tennessee Valley Authority. The flooding that results will push them out of their homes and off their land -- homes that many of them have lived in for their entire lives, land that has been in some of the characters' families for many generations.As the novel opens, most of the families have sold off their property eagerly, wanting to get out from under the burden of farming the bad soil in the mountains. Some have moved to other farms in adjacent areas and some have migrated north, to work in factories.The novel centers on one family who has not yet departed: James Dodson, his wife Annie Clyde Dodson, and their three-year-old daughter, Grace. While James, who has nearly always felt oppressed by having to eke out a living from the unforgiving land, is eager to go and has arranged a factory job in Michigan, Annie Clyde (as Greene calls her throughout the novel, her middle name coming from her father) does not want to leave because she feels the same sort of irrevocable connection to the land that so many of Greene's characters did in her wonderful first novel, BLOODROOT. For Annie Clyde, who is living on the farm that was her father's, her desire to remain is connected to her daughter, whom she plans will inherit the land after she is gone.Early on, when a government employee comes to call on Annie Clyde, to convince her to sign the necessary papers that will give the land to the government for the project, Annie Clyde refuses, even after he tells her that she has no choice: the government will take the land, whether she agrees or not.She tells him: "This is not my land. . . .I have a little girl. It belongs to her."Shortly after the novel opens, Annie Clyde's daughter disappears and, with the water rising, Annie Clyde, her husband and others start a frantic search for the child.Because the novel has a clear narrative goal (finding the child) and a deadline (Grace vanishes a day before the Dodsons have to vacate their land), LONG MAN has a plot that seems more conventional than that of BLOODROOT, which has a more complicated structure, but Greene exploits those elements to give herself a central thread through which she can weave a novel that is sprawling and complex. Like BLOODROOT, Greene constructs the narrative through a series of sections from shifting points-of-view, and like BLOODROOT the people who populate LONG MAN seem fully human. Take Annie Clyde, for example. In the scene with the government man, whom she holds off partly by pointing her father's rifle at him, she seems the strong country woman. But this is the government man's point-of-view. When Greene gives us Annie Clyde's point-of-view, we learn how much effort it takes her to present that tough façade, as in other scenes we also see her doubt, we see her distraught, we see her so exhausted that, at one point in the search for her daughter, she lies down in a cabin belonging to a woman she knows for what she thinks will be a minute but which turns into hours. She is, in short, as close to flesh-and-blood as any construction made of words on a page could possibly be.One element that elevates the novel even further, beyond Greene's deft story-telling and her ability to create such vivid characters, is that it does what the great American novels I mention do: she puts its characters up against elements that are much greater than they are, in this case, the Depression and twin unstoppable forces – the rising water that will consume everything, and the federal government. I want to add here that Greene does not turn LONG MAN into a political tract: even the government, represented here primarily by a character named Sam Washburn, the government agent who calls on Annie Clyde, seems multi-dimensional, as Washburn is complex, sincere in his desire to help people but at the same time understanding that his job means getting them to leave their land; we learn of his childhood fear of water that came from a day on which he almost drowned, a trait that deepens his desire to move the families away from the rising river; we also see him from his point-of-view, the man with a job, and from the points-of-view of other characters, some who see him as a young man in a suit that doesn't seem to quite fit. Greene is not arguing that the federal government is doing something heinous in displacing people: the people would benefit from electricity and the only way to bring it to them was to displace many of them. The question Greene is concerned with is this: given such forces, how does a man or a woman respond and what does how one responds say about one as a human being?Beyond the rich characters and the compelling story, LONG MAN possesses some of the most beautiful prose I've read in a long while, the sort of prose that made me more than once stop reading so I could hold onto a particular sentence or passage a bit longer.In one early passage, from the point-of-view of a drifter named Amos who becomes central to the narrative, Greene writes:"Amos liked children. He admired their wildness. Even in the low places he kept to they could be found. The sons of junkmen scrambling over humps of refuse and around the hulls of wrecked cars. The daughters of tar-paper shack dwellers dragging naked baby dolls along backwoods railroad tracks."Elsewhere, about a morning after a rainstorm, she writes, "By the first light of morning the rain had stopped. When the sun rose it twinkled on the surface of the water standing everywhere like thousands of eyes coming open."Greene's first novel, BLOODROOT, was a critical and commercial success, one I admired tremendously, but LONG MAN is even better. It's one of those rare books that, when I finished it, I felt a sadness since it was not part of my life in such a direct way anymore. It makes me eager for whatever she writes next.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Gorgeous… By Sara E. Hill I could barely breathe. A town full of history and memory slowly disappearing under a man made lake. A promise of progress simultaneously destroying and giving hope. That would have been enough. Facing the reality and understanding the sacrifices that depression-era families made for the dams was compelling enough. It is so hard to imagine that it really happened! Entire towns and family legacies submerged under water! But Amy Greene does it. She makes you see and feel a portion of history gone almost entirely undiscussed. Amidst this truly historical backdrop, the author imagines the most compelling of "what ifs". What if a 3 year old girl goes missing in the town days before the water covers the town? It was a frantic read from that point on! This was a gorgeous novel blanketed in Amy Greene's vivid prose. You are completely pulled in. For those of us that lived in this landscape, it is the best representation of our home. I cannot wait to see how this shapes the ideas of the rest of you, for whom these stories are totally foreign. I am so anxious for the next book already!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Existential Angst: A Very Well Written Novel By Eric Selby When we read, the images on the page will of necessity be referenced to our own experiences. So for me the images in this novel bounce off those of my maternal grandparents atop a small mountain, never having experienced electricity in their home and on their rock-filled farm until their eight surviving children, for my grandparents’ 50th anniversary, had a line strung up from the farmhouse nearest them, maybe a half mile away. My grandmother was noted for having her many grandchildren churn the butter—it’s hard!—as my grandfather was noted for reaching into his bee hives without protection and never having been stung.This novel presents the duality of horrific weather and an FDR-era dam project taking away the livelihoods in the hardscrabble community of Yuneetah where, for example, toadstools grow on the floorboards of Beulah, the aged woman who is one of the few who will remain when the dammed waters will drown the town.As is true with all of Annie Proulx’s fiction, this novel is set in the hardness of place. The reader becomes saturated with the near impossibility of being able to create a living in this community. The people are all uneducated but, in some cases, not totally ignorant.Long Man is the river And it is this river which will provide the electricity for people who have never had any. Most of the community has left for Detroit—a rather ironic city given the context of what we know today about that city—but a few remain behind, creating an existential angst for people who are divided about whether to leave or not. And that decision has to be made soon, within days because the flood is about to occur. They have all been warned and re-warned.This is a novel that I could not read at my usual rather rapid pace. The writing is just too good for me to have done so. However, I can understand why readers found this a drag. It moves very, very slowly. I enjoyed that experience. And do believe Amy Greene is one of our best American writers today.
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