Voice of Glory: The Life and Work of Davis Grubb

by Thomas E. Douglass

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Hailing from the small river town of Moundsville, West Virginia, Davis Grubb (1919-1980) became a key figure in the canon of Appalachian literature. The author of ten novels and dozens of short stories and radio plays, Grubb's writings, as Tom Douglass observes, "catalogued his life" - and a turbulent life it was, marked by the traumatic loss of both the family home and his father during the Great Depression, the overbearing affections of his mother, the fear of failure, painful struggles with alcohol and drug abuse, profligate spending, and a conflicted sexuality.

Grubb originally aspired to be a...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781621902829
  • Publish Date 18 August 2017
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Tennessee Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 277
  • Language English