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August 18, 2015 | |
9781611175431 | |
English | |
224 | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
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1.8 Pounds (US) | |
$19.99 USD | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Jacob Jump
Old friends Thomas Verdery and William Rhind, each seeking temporary escape from the failures of their lives, take to the river with Rhind's father. Verdery, a native southerner, has left his job and lover in Nepaug, Connecticut, while Rhind has lost his wife and child to his drinking. Encounters with dangerous weather and unhinged locals imperil the trio, who are held at gunpoint when they try to dock and soon are fighting among themselves. The hazards of the trip and a shocking loss along the way exacerbate William Rhind's drinking and tendencies toward violence. When Verdery and Rhind must become reluctant custodians to young Caron Lee, a lost girl from the backwoods family that had previously accosted them, tensions build toward explosive ends as the serene open waters of the Atlantic Ocean wait just beyond reach on the unknown, unknowable horizon.
Guided by a host of influences from William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway to Cormac McCarthy, James Dickey, and Ron Rash, Morris's prose brings readers deep into the uncertainties of a still-wild southern landscape and of the frailties of the human heart yearning for past and future alike while pulled along by the inescapable current of the present.
Best-selling writer and Story River Books editor at large Pat Conroy provides a foreword to the novel.
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Reviews
"In his bold first novel Jacob Jump, Eric Morris takes full possession of the Savannah River. . . . [He] is a writer to be closely watched and his novel is as finely crafted as a Swiss timepiece. It has a perfection of design that is satisfying and a scope that is as ambitious as it is finely wrought."—Pat Conroy, from the foreword
"Eric Morris's Jacob Jump is half hallucinatory prose poem, half mythic journey, and, with every passing mile-marker, a work of gathering and genuine beauty. The journey down the Savannah River, rendered with such knowing precision, will surely bring to mind James Dickey's Deliverance, but the psychological nuances of this voyage put me more in mind of the work of the great Josephine Humphries. Jacob Jump is a work of art that also just happens to be an absolutely riveting read. It's a novel I won't soon forget."—Mark Powell, author of The Sheltering
"After reading Jacob Jump my first question was: how did this first-time novelist get so good? Jacob Jump is a remarkable book, and Eric Morris is a major talent. His storytelling is first-rate. His characters are dimensional and believable. And his ability to put you in a scene is extraordinary."—Peter Leonard, best-selling author of Voices of the Dead
Paperback / softback | |
August 18, 2015 | |
9781611175431 | |
English | |
224 | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
1.8 Pounds (US) | |
$19.99 USD | |
v2.1 Reference | |
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