Abraham Two-Hill
by Jason Broadwater |
| Trade Paperback |
5 ½ x 8 ½ |
Fiction |
| Release date: September 2005 |
249 pages |
ISBN: 1-933016-18-3 |
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$15.95 |
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This strong Southern gothic and historical story follows a mysterious drifter named Abraham to a cove outside of Asheville called Two-Hill. There, Abraham falls in with the Gauldens, an important family in this small community. He then works with the members of this family to fulfill his plan.
Abraham is progress personified. And progress brings with it good and bad. Through the course of the novel, Two-Hill is radically changed by commerce and traffic, and Abraham is at the center of it all. He becomes a father figure to the town. Yet everyone in the community becomes indebted to him in one way or another. He then begins to dissipate, to not be a man at all, but a legend, a myth, a cliché of a kindly slave-owner of his antebellum past in a mansion up on the hill. Is he good? Is he bad? You may as well try to answer that question about Progress itself. It is neither and both. It is ambiguous and to be judged by the individual. Yet it is overwhelmingly powerful; of this there is no doubt.
The main characters of this novel go on to experience success, happiness,
loss, sadness, tragedy, and death, with Abraham always in their minds
and somehow in control of their lives. The story is beautiful, funny,
and haunting. It is Faulknerian to a degree. Its casually-paced tempo
is compelling to the very end. Full with beautiful prose, wonderful dialogue
and powerful imagery, Abraham Two-Hill is a
sure literary success. |
