
The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush
by Susan Gregg Gilmore
Title:
The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush
Author:
Susan Gregg Gilmore
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
300 pages, Illustrations
Publisher:
Blair
ISBN-13:
9781958888551
EAN:
9781958888551
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
544
Dimensions (mm):
148 x 224 x 28
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Young Leonard Bush buries his lost leg and saves his whole East Tennessee town in this winsome and miracle-making novel.When twelve-year-old Leonard Bush loses his leg in a freak accident, he decides to give his leg a proper burial in the hilltop cemetery of his East Tennessee town. This event somehow sets off a chain of miraculous and catastrophic events-upending the lives of Leonard's rigidly God-fearing mother, June; his deeply conflicted father, Emmett; and his best friend, Azalea, and her mother, Rose, who is also the town prostitute. While the local Baptist minister passes judgment on events and promises dire consequences, the people of this small community on the banks of Big Sugar move together toward awakening.Susan Gilmore's love of storytelling flows naturally from her Tennessee roots. She's the daughter of a revival preacher's son, brought up on the land and streams that populate this novel that is, as Appalachian novelist Lee Smith says, a 'homespun Pilgrim's Progress.'










