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Gaining the Higher Ground: An Appreciation

Gaining the Higher Ground: An Appreciation Keith Maillard Appalachian Heritage, Volume 34, Number 4, Fall 2006, pp. 38-45 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2006.0125 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/433764/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:03 GMT from JHU Libraries FEATURED AUTHOR—MEREDITH SUE WILLIS Gaining the Higher Ground: An Appreciation Keith Maillard On my personal list of favorite West Virginia novels, Meredith Sue Willis' Higher Ground is either at the top of the list or very close to it. I've read the book several times now, with increasing pleasure, and each time I've always found a greater depth and resonance. Critical studies have been written about Higher Ground—Tal Stanley's in The Iron Mountain Review (Vol. XII, Spring 1996) is a good one—and I don't intend to write another; I simply want to talk about why I like it as much as I do. A good starting point is the pang of the familiar. Willis and I are close in age, and our West Virginia home towns are quite different in some respects, but there is also much that is similar. I know the people she is writing about, and I also know what it takes to write about http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Gaining the Higher Ground: An Appreciation

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Appalachian Review , Volume 34 (4) – Jan 8, 2014
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Keith Maillard Appalachian Heritage, Volume 34, Number 4, Fall 2006, pp. 38-45 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2006.0125 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/433764/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:03 GMT from JHU Libraries FEATURED AUTHOR—MEREDITH SUE WILLIS Gaining the Higher Ground: An Appreciation Keith Maillard On my personal list of favorite West Virginia novels, Meredith Sue Willis' Higher Ground is either at the top of the list or very close to it. I've read the book several times now, with increasing pleasure, and each time I've always found a greater depth and resonance. Critical studies have been written about Higher Ground—Tal Stanley's in The Iron Mountain Review (Vol. XII, Spring 1996) is a good one—and I don't intend to write another; I simply want to talk about why I like it as much as I do. A good starting point is the pang of the familiar. Willis and I are close in age, and our West Virginia home towns are quite different in some respects, but there is also much that is similar. I know the people she is writing about, and I also know what it takes to write about

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