The Kentucky Trace: A Novel of the American Revolution

Harriette Arnow Papers to Open With Exhibit, Symposium

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The event will take place at 4 p. The exhibition of work will run through February Included are materials that document her writing process, from first-draft manuscripts on dime store tablets, through various iterations and drafts, to printer page proofs.

Also included are correspondence with family, editors, publishers and literary agents. Arnow was born in Wayne County, Ky. She went on to publish several short stories, five novels and three works of nonfiction from the s to Arnow died in Michigan in Kentucky is a central element in much of Arnow's most popular work.

In these works of fiction, Arnow explores how the the social and economic fabric of rural Kentucky hill communities in the first half of the 20 th century was changed by the coming of roads, electricity and the World Wars. A Novel of the American Revolution" were published in the early s. A collection of short stories and a novel, "Between the Flowers," were released posthumously.

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Arnow produced something unique with this book; I've never encountered elsewhere this stream-of-consciousness style and thoroughly modern attitude in novels about the American Revolution. I loved the passages that involved storytelling--so many of the characters tell long, humorous stories to the main character, Leslie Collins.

The plot stalls at times because of the endless descriptions of clothing or the steps involved in making saltpeter, for example.

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We get it, Harriette--you did a tremendous amount of research! You didn't have to include all of it. The ending is such a disappointment--I thought for a moment that my book was missing the last few pages--but that's typical of this author. The Kentucky Trace is nowhere near as good as her masterpiece, Hunter's Horn, but I still found much to appreciate and enjoy. Also--avoid the edition from Michigan State University Press.

It was clearly made by scanning the original edition by University Press of Kentucky, and it's rife with errors. I'm glad it's still in print, but some times I had to stop and re-read sentences due to the typos. I checked passages against the '74 edition, and they were fine. Oct 15, Mitzi rated it really liked it Shelves: My feelings on this one are a little mixed, I wavered between 3 and 4 stars, finally I went with 4 because I did enjoy the story.

I just wished the plot would have went farther, which could have been done if she would have reduced her amount of description - I dig reading history, but there was just too much detail in there about making gunpowder, types of trees, etc.

If she would have tightened that stuff up a bit she could have taken the story to a farther out end, as it is it feels like My feelings on this one are a little mixed, I wavered between 3 and 4 stars, finally I went with 4 because I did enjoy the story. If she would have tightened that stuff up a bit she could have taken the story to a farther out end, as it is it feels like an abrupt cut-off instead of a completely realized, wrapped up ending.

All that being said, I did enjoy the characters and the story, and I did like a lot of the detail about frontier life. If you are into that time period it is definitely worth a read. Dec 29, Margaret Smith rated it it was amazing. I live in central Ky.

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The only thing I can compare these books to are the Foxfire books. If you like them, you will like her books. This is supposed to be a kind of "classic" but did not care for it at all.

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