Word: cloudland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much a sublimation of actual Kentucky as the late John Millington Synge's Aran Islanders were of the Irish. This collection of seven short stories (of which only three have not before been published) will help fence in more securely her well-established claim to her Kentucky cloudland. Readers who pine for action had best look elsewhere. Nothing much happens in these stories; they are a mirror, not a silver-screen. Some of the reflections: A mountain boy, fired by his teacher with a vague desire for "learning," sets off across the hills to see the world...