6164X1 Second printing, March 1995. Addison-Wesley, Reading:1995. 240 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. When the author covered the trial of Glenn Summerford for The New York Times, a snake-handling preacher who had just tried to murder his wife, Darlene, by snakebite, a world far beyond the trial opened up for him. Covington's story begins with a crime and a trial and then becomes an extraordinary exploration of a place, a people, and an author's descent into himself. The place is southern Appalachia - a country deep and unsettled, where the past and its culture collide with the economic and social realities of the present, leaving a residue of rootlessness, anxiety, and lawlessness. ISBN: 0201622920 $11.55USD
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