
The Teeth of the Souls
A Novel
Steve Yates(Author)
Moon City Press
Will be published approx. on 30. April 2015
Book
Hardback
480 pages
978-0-913785-53-9 (ISBN)
Description
As the sequel to Morkan's Quarry, The Teeth of the Souls tells the story of a marriage betrayed, a lifelong and secret love, and an Ozarks city riven by an Easter lynching. The story begins just after the Civil War when Leighton Shea Morkan, son of Irish immigrants, marries Patricia Gruenhaagen Weitzer, daughter of a German banking family. Yet he can't let go of his childhood love and wartime confidante, the house hand and former slave, Judith. Both unions produce children, one a shrouded secret, and one the heir to the Morkan legacy: the limestone quarries of Springfield, Missouri, and the bloody past, what Judith calls "The Teeth of the Souls."
Grounded in broad historical research and spanning Missouri's reconstruction, vigilantism, and fall from grace, The Teeth of the Souls chronicles the violent melding of immigrant strains-Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and African American-into the fabric of the Ozarks.
Grounded in broad historical research and spanning Missouri's reconstruction, vigilantism, and fall from grace, The Teeth of the Souls chronicles the violent melding of immigrant strains-Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and African American-into the fabric of the Ozarks.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Springfield
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-913785-53-9 (9780913785539)
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Steve Yates, a native of Springfield, Missouri, USA, is the Juniper Prize-winning author of Some Kinds of Love: Stories and of Morkan's Quarry. Yates is currently the assistant director / marketing director at the University Press of Mississippi, USA.