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<p>There is a most unusual woman living in Gap Creek. Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as aman" they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop.<br><br> People depend on her. They need her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. She is just a teenager when her little brother dies in her arms. That same year she marries Hank and moves down into the valley where fire and visions visit themselves on her and where con men and drunks come calling.<br><br> Julie and Hank discover that the modern world is complex, grinding ever on without pause or concern for their hard work. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay.<br><br> With Julie, Robert Morgan has brought to life one of the most memorable women in modern American literature with the same skill that led the Boston Book Review to say that he writes "with an authority usually associated with the great novelists of the last century." <br><br> In this novel, Morgan returns to the vivid world of the Appalachian high country to follow Julie and Hank in their new life on Gap Creek and their efforts to make sense of the world in the last years of

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Author

Morgan, Robert, 1944-

Publisher

Scribner Paperback Fiction; Touchstone

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780743203630

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.71 / 5 (42,637 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13