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Family Pieces: Interview with Silas House

Family Pieces: Interview with Silas House Marianne Worthington Appalachian Heritage, Volume 29, Number 4, Fall 2001, pp. 15-20 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2001.0012 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435924/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:15 GMT from JHU Libraries INTERVIEW Marianne Worthington With a great deal of pride and enthusiasm, Silas House will tell you that he was raised in southeastern Kentucky by a close-knit, hardworking, extended family who attended the Pentecostal church "every time the door was cracked." With equal pleasure he will tell you about his ancestral scoundrels and daredevils. He points to one of the scores of family pictures adorning the walls of his home and relates that the two couples in this picture are sitting on the courthouse steps awaiting a possible indictment for some wrongdoing one of them has committed. The alleged deed is forgotten, but what Silas House likes about the picture is the attitude. The two women in the 1940s pictureHouse face the camera dead on. They are wearing pants and smoking cigarettes. Their rebellion makes him grin, and it is suddenly obvious to anyone who has read House's debut novel, Clay's Quilt, that his characters are probably composites of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Family Pieces: Interview with Silas House

Worthington, Marianne
Appalachian Review , Volume 29 (4) – Jan 8, 2014
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Marianne Worthington Appalachian Heritage, Volume 29, Number 4, Fall 2001, pp. 15-20 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2001.0012 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435924/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:15 GMT from JHU Libraries INTERVIEW Marianne Worthington With a great deal of pride and enthusiasm, Silas House will tell you that he was raised in southeastern Kentucky by a close-knit, hardworking, extended family who attended the Pentecostal church "every time the door was cracked." With equal pleasure he will tell you about his ancestral scoundrels and daredevils. He points to one of the scores of family pictures adorning the walls of his home and relates that the two couples in this picture are sitting on the courthouse steps awaiting a possible indictment for some wrongdoing one of them has committed. The alleged deed is forgotten, but what Silas House likes about the picture is the attitude. The two women in the 1940s pictureHouse face the camera dead on. They are wearing pants and smoking cigarettes. Their rebellion makes him grin, and it is suddenly obvious to anyone who has read House's debut novel, Clay's Quilt, that his characters are probably composites of

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