This Rock
Written by Robert Morgan
Narrated by Sally Darling and Tom Stechschulte
5/5
()
About this audiobook
The Powell brothers-Muir and Moody-are as different as Cain and Abel. Muir is an innocent, a shy young man with big dreams. Moody, the older and wilder brother-embittered by the death of his father, by years of fighting his mother, and by his jealousy of Muir's place in the family-takes to moonshine and gambling and turns his anger on his brother. Muir escapes by wandering, making his way around the country in attempts to find something-an occupation, a calling-to match his ambition.
Through it all, their mother, Ginny, tries to steer her boys right, all the while remembering her own losses: her husband (whose touch still haunts her), her youth, and the fiery sense of God that once ordered her world. When Muir, in a drunken vision, decides that his purpose in life is to clear a space on a hill and build a stone church with his own hands, the consequences of his plan are far-reaching and irrevocable: a community threatens to tear itself apart, men die, and his family is forever changed. All that's left in the aftermath are the ghosts and the memories of a new man.
Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan is a poet, novelist, and biographer. His most recent book is Boone: A Biography (2007), winner of the Kentucky Literary Award and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as an honorary degree from his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1971 he has taught at Cornell University, where he is now Kappa Alpha
More audiobooks from Robert Morgan
Boone: A Biography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Road from Gap Creek Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chasing the North Star Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Man Who Flew The Memphis Belle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Rock Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to This Rock
Related audiobooks
This Rock Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Requiem by Fire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bones of Paradise: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Appalachian Daughter Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hill of Beans: Coming of Age in the Last Days of the Old South Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Diary of Mattie Spenser Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Old Rail Fence Corners Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMe and the Cottonwood Tree: An Untethered Boyhood Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jewel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Threads West: An American Saga Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Whiter Than Snow Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Unfinished Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Under the Mercy Trees Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letters on an Elk Hunt Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Last Ballad: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chasing the North Star Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heart Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Name of Her Own Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Billy Goat Hill Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bucking the Sun: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cataloochee Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Moonshine Over Georgia: A Novel Based on Actual Events Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStrongheart: The Lost Journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLittle Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Coal Tattoo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConquering Horse Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Buffalo Girls Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Threads: A Depression Era Tale Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Fiction For You
The Song of Achilles: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: A Hunger Games Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Yellowface: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anxious People: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bright Young Women: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House in the Cerulean Sea Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Road Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tom Lake: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Name of the Wind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stardust Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Demon Copperhead: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Hate U Give Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Picture of Dorian Gray: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dutch House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Measure: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Parable of the Sower Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bell Jar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kindred Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for This Rock
1 rating0 reviews