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All the Living C.E Morgan

All the Living By C.E Morgan

All the Living by C.E Morgan


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Summary

A first novel by the most significant new American writer to have emerged in years.

All the Living Summary

All the Living by C.E Morgan

A first novel by the most significant new American writer to have emerged in years. Aloma is a young woman who has put her life aside - and her dreams of becoming a pianist - to move in with her lover, Orren. His family has recently been killed in an accident. Stricken with grief and overwhelmingly burdened by the shape his life has taken, Orren is desperate to keep the tobacco farm running. There is a drought, and he needs it to rain. As he toils with the land, Aloma finds that Orren has become more remote than she could ever have imagined, and that silence has taken hold of their relationship. When she begins to play the piano for the local church, she meets the local preacher, and feels a dangerous attraction for him. As events unfold over this single summer, C.E. Morgan takes us on a journey which describes the journey of our own lives. This novel is about every single relationship between a man and a woman - past, present and future - and about the distance between the lives we lead and the lives we imagine for ourselves.

All the Living Reviews

"As I read the opening pages of All The Living I was suddenly no longer in my study but gazing out at the leafy tobacco plants of a small Kentucky farm where a young couple are struggling to make their living, and their lives. In seemingly effortless prose, C.E. Morgan captures both the complexity and the simplicity of Orren's relentlessly hard work and Aloma's dangerous drift towards another man. A wonderful debut." Margot Livesey

About C.E Morgan

C.E. Morgan is a graduate of Berea College in Kentucky and of Harvard Divinity School. 'All the Living' is her first novel.

Additional information

GOR001103111
9780007305957
0007305958
All the Living by C.E Morgan
Used - Very Good
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
2009-03-19
224
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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