The Washington Post, January 30th, 2000
GAP CREEK By Robert Morgan Algonquin. 326 pp. $22.95 Reviewed by Susan Dooley Hank Richards is 18 and Julie 17 when they marry and cross the state line between North and South Carolina to begin their lives together in the small house on Gap Creek. It is the late 19th century, though it takes a careful reading to date the events since the life and chores of the rural poor were much the same well into the 20th century. Though Julie may be a novice in the kitchen, she is experienced in tending a farm -- cutting and hauling wood, planting and hoeing corn, hitching up a horse or milking a cow. As f...
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