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Home Call, 205
pages, ISBN 1893239306,
softcover, $15.00.
Jesse Suratt has come home to his
family's Appalachian farm after traveling the world with Uncle Sam's
Yachting Club. Due to a traumatic incident when he was a teen, he
strives to be a recluse, shunning the community, living with only the
company of his dog and a cantankerous mule. But fate and the community
have other plans for him.
Drug dealers, with the help of the local sheriff, are growing marijuana on the mountain behind Jesse's
home.
When Jesse interferes to prevent the murder of a young woman he finds himself in a struggle for his
life.
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Praise for Home Call ---
Home Call is a fascinating, old fashioned yarn in an intensely modern setting. Sloan is a master of the unpredictable and his skillfully drawn characters draw you deeply into their lives whether you want to be there or not. This is a fine read.
--- Jim Harrison (author of Legends
of the Fall and Dalva)
Home Call is an important and original look at contemporary
Appalachia. Sloan doesn't pull any punches and bravely exposes both the beauty and the pain of living in a world that is caught up in the complexities of honoring the past but also moving forward into unknown territory. This is an Appalachia that readers haven't seen yet, and it's about time they did.
--- Silas House
(author of Clay's Quilt and Parchment
of Leaves)
Home Call is
not only a great read with an intricate plot, but it tackles in a quiet
yet powerful way the stereotypes of the solitary Mountain Man, the
small-minded, racist Southerner, and the "ignorant redneck,"
replacing them with real-life, multidimensional characters.
--- Appalachian
Heritage
Readers will be haunted by some of what they encounter in Sloan's Hawkes
County. They will be heartened also. And most important, they will be
deeply entertained.
-- Lexington
Herald-Leader
About Bearskin to Holly Fork, Bob Sloan's collection of
short stories---
Bob Sloan is a
downright fine storyteller and his collection Bearskin to Holly
Fork: Stories from Appalachia finds him at his best. Resplendent
with the smell and taste and sight and sound of Appalachia, the book
is also brimming with humanity. This is kick-ass good work.
--- Robert Olen Butler
The whole Appalachian community of
Midland, Kentucky, comes to life in this fine debut collection of
tough, true stories, each one hard and dark as a lump of coal. Bob
Sloan’s straight, plain prose style is perfectly suited to his
characters and their lives. . . . Whether things work out for
his characters or not, realist Bob Sloan makes us care about them all,
writing in plain honest prose without a trace of sentimentality.
--- Lee Smith
We write about what we know. Bob Sloan knows as
much about his characters as anyone writing today. These are wistful,
comical, straight-ahead stories that fall from the pen the way leaves
fall from trees; some cosmic force helping them find their place.
--- Tom T. Hall
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Bob Sloan's work is attracting
serious attention nationally.
Bob's commentaries, which regularly appear on Kentucky Public
Radio member stations, were recognized with a 2000 PRNDI
award from the National Professional Association of Public Radio News
Directors.
National Public Radio's Morning
Edition began featuring some of those commentaries
in 2001.
Bob's Morning Edition pieces can be heard as RealAudio Files here,
and samples of his work for Kentucky Public Radio can be heard or
downloaded as MP3
files at WMKY-FM,
Morehead State University's "Public Radio to the Mountains."
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Bob Sloan
Bob Sloan has written and narrated three sixty-minute "audio
books." Aunt Ethel's Plumbing and Other Tales contains
some of his radio commentaries, as well as some poetry and an
unabridged reading of one of his short stories. Haunted
Hills is an hour of previously uncollected
contemporary ghost tales, and Stories I Never Told My Mother
are a bit racier (but no stronger than PG). He's
also the co-author and narrator of Valley of the Shadow,
a history of the Rowan County War, the bloodiest and least known
of Kentucky's mountain feuds. All four cassette tapes may be
ordered directly from Bob,
and are available at several Kentucky bookstores. Bob's
collection of short stories, Bearskin
to Holly Fork, was published in 2003.
Check out what Bob's been up to lately at bobsloansampler.com.
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