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Chargement... Conversations in a Country Store: Reminiscing on Maryland's Eastern Shorepar Hal Roth
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This is a book of regional history, humor, and folklore, full of the color of everyday life as it was lived in a remote area of the country early in the 20th century. Decades ago, Hal Roth began listening to and recording the tall tales and hard truths of a fast-fading rural culture on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Shaped by three and a half centuries of geographic isolation from the mainland, and by the tides and winds of the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, the Eastern Shore had its own distinctive vernacular and speech, dating (some say) to Elizabethan England, and its own tall tales, superstitions, haunted histories and tumultuous sagas of survival and endurance.The first of a series of books that resulted from his listening and transcribing was "Conversations in a Country Store," now regarded as a regional classic. It connects us to a time before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge from Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel from Hampton Roads opened the Eastern Shore to expressways and automobiles -- and began tugging it inexorably into the 20th century.Pull up a chair and take a listen -- to conversations in a country store, now available in e-book format for the first time. Only the names have been changed. Both the guilty and the innocent may rest easy, or as easy as their deeds will allow. But the stories and the memories remain. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Mr. Roth's collection of stories is broad and interesting but the way he has presented them detracts from their value.
Mr. Roth says clearly at the outset that he has deliberately obscured the origins of the stories and rightly so because there is no way now for storytellers to consent to their tales being included in this collection.
But I think Mr. Roth takes hiding his sources too far. Some of the stories clearly originate in the 1920s while others are more modern. Some take place at the top of the Eastern Shore, some farther south. Some take place on the riverbank and seashore. Mr. Roth does nothing to help us place these stories in either time or place. Each vignette is written as a paragraph or two that is completely divorced from its neighbors. There is nothing here of Mr. Roth or of the storytellers or their communities. I am reminded of a book of limericks.
I received a review copy of "Conversations in a Country Store" by Hal Roth (Secant Publishing) through LibraryThing.com. ( )