The Distance from the Heart of Things - Hardcover

Warlick, Ashley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395741777 ISBN 13: 9780395741771

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996

Synopsis

Returning home from college to her grandfather's prosperous Carolina vineyard, Mavis Black discovers a growing emotional distance from her eccentric southern family--her dreamy mother, blacksheep uncle, and powerful grandfather, Punk. A first novel. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

About this title

Review:

A coming-of-age story set in the deep South, where the transformation of Mavis Black, a young woman who just graduated from college, reflects changes taking place in the land in which she grew up. Punk and Miss Pauline, Mavis' grandparents, impact her the most. As relics of the old South working to adapt to life in the 1990s, they empathize with their granddaughter's transition to adulthood through good-natured humor. And though Mavis' heart settles on a young archer named Harris, she keeps her distance, at least for a time, preferring to revel in her own emerging individuality.

About the Author:

Ashley Warlick is the author of The Summer After June and The Distance from the Heart of Things, for which she became the youngest ever recipient of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. She graduated from Dickinson College in 1994 and now lives in Greenville, South Carolina, with her family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0395741777
• ISBN 13: 9780395741771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256