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Book Reviews C. E. Morgan. All the Living. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2009. 208 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $23.00. Reviewed by George Brosi All the Living by C. E. Morgan is a striking debut novel. Nuanced, innovative, and compelling, the novel is an especially impressive achievement for an author who is barely thirty-years-old. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux--the publishing house that won the six-figure twobook bidding war--released it as the lead novel in its Spring 2009 United States catalog. The novel is being simultaneously published in England by 4th Estate/Harpercollins and Canada by Knopf/Random House as well. The title comes from the fact that the protagonist, Aloma, and her partner, Orren, both in their early twenties, are the only people in their immediate families who remain alive. Aloma was orphaned at the age of three and has lived for the last decade at a mountain settlement school. Orren, whose father died when he was young, has just lost his mother and only sibling in a car wreck. The novel begins in the late spring, shortly after the wreck, as Orren decides to leave the mountain college where he is studying agriculture and take over the family
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 31, 2009
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