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"On sabbatical from his professorship at the University of Pittsburgh, native West Virginian Chuck Kinder makes a midlife pilgrimage to his homeland to reimagine and reconnect with that fabled, fantastic country. Confronting the regrets and heartaches of his past, present, and future, Kinder seeks solace in the funny and bawdy family stories, lies, legends, and history that reside in West Virginia's haunted hills and the hollows of his memory. But more than anything, Kinder wants to live it up hillbilly style - and the results make this wicked Appalachian outlaw one helluva traveling…
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5 editions- Paperback · English · 2018West Virginia University Press · 480 pages · 9781946684516
- Paperback · English · 2005Carroll & Graf · 457 pages · 9780786716531
- Other · English · 2018West Virginia University Press · 9781946684523
- Other · English · 2009Hachette Books · 9780786738229
- Other · English · 2004Carroll & Graf · 457 pages · 9780786714063
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