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The Long Road Home, Chuck Sullivan
The Long Road Home, Chuck Sullivan
Dissertations and Theses
The Long Road Home, a short prose epic, concerns the adventure and political coming-of-age of two sixteen-year-old boys, Dean and Blake. The boys hitchhike from their hometown of Pittsburgh to Greensboro, North Carolina in order to attend a march against the Ku Klux Klan. Dean and Blake are politically idealistic and naïve boys who learn a lot about the complexities of race relations in America on their adventure. The boys encounter a variety of people on their trip and in Greensboro, some of whom are hostile, friendly, indifferent, deceptive, generous, and downright strange.
When the day of the march against …
Moorings, Nancy Jeanne Slavin
Moorings, Nancy Jeanne Slavin
Dissertations and Theses
This novel is set in the fictional town of Snug Harbor, Alaska - a small south-coastal fishing village. The beauty and ruggedness of the natural environment constantly inform the movements of the purse seining fleet, the local businesses, and, especially, the people. The characters' connections and experiences with the land and sea scapes are integral to how they perceive their internal worlds. As the seasons progress quickly from the opening chapter of the spring equinox, the arrival of light augments the townspeople's activities.
The novel alternately is told through the third person viewpoints of two protagonists, who both tend to …