Gap Creek, Robert Morgan
Gap Creek, Robert Morgan
2 Rating(s)
List: $23.80 | Sale: $16.66
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Gap Creek
The Story of a Marriage

Author: Robert Morgan

Narrator: Jill Hill

Abridged: 4 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/27/2000


Synopsis

An Oprah's Book Club Selection

An unflinching tale of turn-of-the-century Appalachian life, Gap Creek chronicles the challenging first year in the marriage of Julie Harmon and Hank Richards. After losing both her father and brother before turning 17, Julie faces fire, flood, grifters, sickness, and starvation with grim determination and remarkable stamina. By capturing the earthy details of rural life, including raw, riveting accounts of everything from hog slaughtering to childbirth, Robert Morgan weaves the human and the heroic that coexist in every individual.

About Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan is the bestselling author of numerous works of fiction-including the Oprah Book Club selection Gap Creek-and nonfiction, and is also an established poet with fourteen collections to his credit. Born in Hendersonville, North Carolina, he teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he is Kappa Alpha Professor of English.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Marjorie on 2010-07-15 17:02:53

A pretty dreadful story, with almost everything that happens being sad/bad/dreadful. You can kind of tell that this woman's story is written by a man, because through it all she loves her man who mostly doesn't deserve it. I kept waiting for things to look up, and it really never happened. I even found the character's voice annoying: almost a Beverly Hillbillies parody of an uneducated southerner.

Goodreads review by Kathryn on July 08, 2012

I hated this book for so many reasons! Here are the top five. 1. I don't buy Robert Morgan writing as a female. It just doesn't wash. 2. The sex scenes are beyond unbelievable - they read like some weird hill-billy acid trip synthesia. It's very distracting. 3. I don't buy that such a strong female cha......more

Goodreads review by AJ on February 12, 2013

Robert Morgan's "Gap Creek" is written in a simple manner, easy to read, but raw. If you think your life is rough, read this book. The primary root of trouble in this story is the land of Gap Creek itself. In fact, the earth itself is so extraordinarily pervasive and alive, that Morgan almost allows......more

Goodreads review by Kristy on January 12, 2015

Uhhhhh.... What exactly was the point of what I just read??!!! Oh, there wasn't one???!!! Ok. Just checking. Was this bad? No. Boring at times, yes. I mean this is a Oprah 's book club read....the praise for it is borderline overwhelming. But, I just can't gush. I can't tell you it was horrid. I'm n......more