SOURCE: Hovis, George. “‘When You Got True Dirt You Got Everything You Need’: Forging an Appalachian Arcadia in Fred Chappell's Midquest.” Mississippi Quarterly 53, no. 3 (summer 2000): 389-414.
In the following essay, Hovis examines the themes of farming and Chappell's Appalachian past in Midquest.
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