Roger Alan Skipper, Author . Soft Skull $13.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-933368-34-4
Poverty and pipe dreams mark the lives of Sid Lore and Janet Hollar, the outsider couple—he, from Tennessee, she, unable to speak in tongues (the mark of a true believer in her Pentecostal church)—at the heart of Skipper's promising...
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Roger Alan Skipper, Author . Counterpoint $15.95 (360p) ISBN 978-1-58243-460-5
Lane Hollar, the manly hero of Skipper's riveting second novel (after Tear Down the Mountain
), feels right at home in his West Virginia bait shop, where he helps care for his 12-year-old grandson, Toby, when daughter-in-law Darlene is working.
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Roger Alan Skipper, Author . Counterpoint $15.95 (249p) ISBN 978-1-58243-563-3
Set amid the hardscrabble hills of West Virginia, Skipper’s third novel is a tour of trailer parks, lonely roads, and lost souls centering on Tuesday Price, a nom de guerre for downward-spiraling drunk Andrew Price. A brilliant outsider,...
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