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Title: Clearing in the Sky and Other Stories by Jesse Stuart, Stanley Rice, Ruel E. Foste ISBN: 0-8131-1510-8 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: June, 1984 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Great reading
Comment: Stuart's stories of the backwoods during the first half of the 20th Century are a piece of Americana. They haven't lost anything with time, though they've become more foreign. It's clear they're written for a readership that savors a good yarn and has the appreciation to savor it again sometime in the future.

Watch a blusterer, proud of his prowess as an eater almost kill himself in a kernal corn eating contest with a chicken. Spend the day traveling with a drunk who votes in 36 different precincts in a single election. Experience the remorse of a thief, convicted of disassembling an idle steam-shovel, carrying it away on his back, piece by piece, and reassembling it in his barn, all because he fell in love with it.

Bear wrestling, youthful mountain romance, digging worms for fishing surrounded by a coal mine and a moving love for the land; these are all the meat and potatoes of Stuart's delightful, entertaining stories.

Excellent reading, one story at a time. You'll save the book and read it again. This isn't fare for the disposable-minded, 'Yeah, I already read that one' culture, but the 21st Century might profit by reading it anyway.