Against the country
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ben Metcalf
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781400062690
Subjects: Country life; Families; City and town life; Fiction
Description: "Set in the Virginia pines, and overrun with failed parents, racist sex offenders, cast-off priests, and suicidal chickens, this novel challenges literary convention even as it attacks our national myth: that the rural naturally engenders good, while the urban breeds an inevitable sin"--Dust jacket flap.