James Still’s River of Earth: The Definitive Appalachian Novel Turns 75

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Article

Publication Date

2-15-2015

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Excerpt: Seventy-five years ago this month the definitive “Appalachian” novel was published — James Still’s “River of Earth.” “Appalachian” literature did not exist then. Still and his novel essentially spawned the phenomenon of people writing consciously and reflexively about Appalachia, a storied if misunderstood American region.

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