The Road from Gap Creek, Robert Morgan
The Road from Gap Creek, Robert Morgan
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The Road from Gap Creek

Author: Robert Morgan

Narrator: Emma Galvin

Unabridged: 11 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/27/2013

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

When Gap Creek was published in 1999, it became an instant national bestseller, attracting hundreds of thousands of readers to the story of a marriage begun with love and hope at the turn of the twentieth century. Set in the Appalachian South, it followed Julie and Hank Richards as they struggled through the first year and a half of their union. But what of the years following? What did the future hold for these memorable characters?

The Road to Gap Creek answers those questions, as Robert Morgan takes us back into the lives of Julie and Hank as well as their children, seen through the eyes of their youngest daughter, Annie. Through Annie we watch the four Richards children create their own histories, lives that include both triumph and hardship in the face of the Great Depression and World War II.

Far more than a sequel, The Road from Gap Creek is a moving and indelible portrait of people and their world in a time of unprecedented change, an American story told by one of the country’s most acclaimed writers.

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

Goodreads review by Dale

Two and a half stars I read Gap Creek many years ago and loved it, so I was excited to see a new book by Robert Morgan. This one starts with a sad event from World War two and then goes back in time as Annie, daughter of Hank and Julie, remembers incidents about her brother, growing up and relationsh......more

Goodreads review by Mary Jo

just finished reading The road from Gap Creek and Gap Creek, in that order. The descriptive writing in these books is supurb. I thoroughly enjoyed reading both and they gave me such insight as to what the lives of my grandparents and great grandparents must have been like. I know they ate their shar......more

Goodreads review by Kevin

Full disclosure, Robert Morgan was my first creative writing professor and academic adviser in college. After the passage of many years, I met him at the Millbrook (NY) Literary festival. I had read Gap Creek and his collection of short stories, The Balm of Gilead Tree, and knew of his many other wo......more