num_pages: 160
description: The lives of the working class in West Virginia—a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed—are explored in this powerful yet tender collection of six short stories and a novella. They depict an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won dignity and are a lyrical rendering of times and places now largely gone—but the stirring clarity of people and landscape can persist in the reader's imagination.Tyler's balladOld firesBeliever's floodJackson StillwellRock of agesThe wars of heavenThe love of a good woman
language: English
title: The Wars of Heaven
titlecomplete: The Wars of Heaven
genres: Short Stories
ratings_count: 29
publisher: Vintage