A new collection of stories from celebrated Kentucky author Gurney NormanA beautiful book ... A remarkable, eye-opening set of stories ... Brilliantly arranged ... An exhilarating mirroring of consciousness itself ... Grand and important, funny and heartbreaking ... An act of graceAllegiance is a brilliant and original set of stories by former Kentucky Poet Laureate Gurney Norman. Spanning forty years of work, Allegiance is an autobiography told through stories--a rich personal journey into Normans life, place, and consciousness. In classic short stories, lyrical meditations, folktales, dreamscapes, and stream-of-consciousness writing, Norman imaginatively weaves together the threads of his life. Each story builds on what has come before, prisms enlarging the effect of the whole ... The stories are humorous and heartbreaking, told mainly in the voice of Normans fictional narrator, Wilgus Collier. From his working-class childhood in the coalfields of Appalachia to the center of the 1960s counterculture and back again to Kentucky, Normans journey has been a life of many movements. This is a jacketed hardcover edition of Allegiance, featuring a foreword by poet Leatha Kendrick, an authors note, and an original cover painting by Appalachian artist Pam Oldfield Meade. A selection of nonfiction pieces comprises the books epilogue.Published by Old Cove PressGurney Norman is a novelist and short story writer whose works include Divine Rights Trip, Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories, Ancient Creek: A Folktale, and Allegiance. He is a professor of English at the University of Kentucky and a former Kentucky Poet Laureate. A native of eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia, he was the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University. Norman has received many honors for his work and is a widely known Appalachian literary and cultural advocate. He is coeditor of Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes, and An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature.Book specifications:Dimensions: 231 x 150Author: Gurney NormanCover type: PaperbackPublishing Year: 2022Publishing Month: 7Pages: 232Language: EnglishPublisher: Ohio University Press Distributed TitlesWeight: 227 g