![]() ![]() Books & Magazines Books See more Ludies Life by Cynthia Rylant (2006, Hardcove. Online book reviews since 2011, the very best in reviewing connecting good readers with equally good. Award-winning author Cynthia Rylant weaves a novel. ![]() "A collection of Zen-like moments of self-discovery and serenity. You are purchasing a Good copy of Ludies Life. What makes Ludie extraordinary is her lifenot as it is shaped by popular success, but as it is lived. ![]() "A brilliant contribution to the growing collection of Appalachian literature that tells the story as honestly and purely as life in the mountains has always been and always will be." - Teenreads This is the story of one woman's experiences in a hardscrabble coal-mining town, a story that brims with universal themes about life, love, and family-and all of the joy, laughter, heartache, and loss that accompany them. In a heartbreaking narrative that flows like a novel, we follow Ludie from childhood to falling in love and getting married, through the birth of her own children, and on into old age. In "luminous moments told in lovely language," the poems of the Newbery Medal–winning author of Boris bring a rural woman to vivid life ( School Library Journal).Ĭynthia Rylant returns to her home state of West Virginia with this powerful and evocative collection of poems. ![]()
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