The Malungun Journal edition by Hillin Jones Literature Fiction eBooks
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Word rich, atmospheric and deeply moving, The Malungun Journal is about bad neighbors and revenge, regret and despair, and finally, redemption and hope. This elegiac diary takes an intimate look at the lingering repercussions of the Civil War and distills the immensity of such a conflict down to the undusted corner's of one persons life, opening a window on all that is lost.
"...richly layered..."
"...vivid and personal..."
"...a voice that beckons us to settle in..."
Finalist 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
The Malungun Journal edition by Hillin Jones Literature Fiction eBooks
The interior of Henry Jennings' mind reveals a world that will give you pause about your own neighborhood. Jennings sports a curmudgeonly persona, even as he writes in his journal, but you, reader, will find yourself enchanted by this fellow's claims and musings regarding the world he lives in. He stitches his vitriol for the next-door neighbors into a family history that is wound tightly into the Civil War. The setting of Culpepper, West Virginia, seems ideal for the contrasting tales of grand heroism with the complaints from a shrunken life.Like all engaging main characters, Jennings is a man with secrets. He opens the doors to those secrets slowly, with a crack here and a crack there. Under Jones' skilled hand, Jennings keeps a pace that moves between revelation and obfuscation with just the right mix. The facts may be myths or the myths, facts, as any unreliable narrator would confess. The author's talent with language and fresh images -- not all pretty (consider a man in a wheelchair left in the rain or a cigarette butt tossed into a wading pool) -- create a voice that beckons us to settle in and follow the winding journey with this cranky yet heart-melting guy to the last truth. This book is a pleasure.
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The Malungun Journal edition by Hillin Jones Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This is the most delicious and beautifully crafted story. I am hopelessly in love with this work and am so happy to have discovered it. A treasure.
hats off to mr jones, i'm a sucker for redemption, and this book really tore me up, a tough read through my bleary tear filled eyes, the way it all came together in the end .... beautiful! i highly reccmmend this book.
I walked around blearyeyed and happy after staying up all night reading this book. I could not put it down. You couldn't pry me away.
Every word Hillin Jones wrote created a vivid and textural scene that allowed me to know the house and characters as if I lived there.The heat and humidity enveloped me as I slumped in my wicker chair on the porch of Jone's Big House or watched the Malunguns from my spot behind the potted plant.I was there the whole book.This is the kind of read you hope for every time you search for something engrossing and well written. Do not waste another second debating . This is an amazing , yes amazing, book.
"Just when you think you are trapped in the dark (albeit hilarious and hilariously southern) rantings of our narrator, off Jones soars to some unexpected lyric height, nipping in and out of history the south, his own, real, imaginary. At times the smallness of his world made me claustrophobic, until it became a richly layered microcosm, not unlike the upstate New York stories of Richard Russo. Vivid and personal - like Carson McCullers. But Jones is unlike any other author I've read. He tosses out descriptions on every page as if anyone could make those wry and delicate connections. I could smell Lamar from 10 feet away! The ending is convergent, an unexpected transcendence. I just ate up the final pages like cream pie. In short, a great read. Loved it."
From William Faulkner to Tennessee Williams, Southern literature derives its great, Gothic power from the venal vicissitudes of mean-spirited, morally deformed, and emasculated characters blinded by the bigness of their littleness, each hardscrabble, goober-crunching, or lugubrious soul stuffed like a sow's ear into a beautiful purse of silky prose. Many of America's greatest literary lions lurk south of the Mason-Dixon Line. The Malungun Journal features metaphysical monsters who use southern civility like a velvet cudgel and trick people into thinking that sloth, regret, suspicion, bitterness, hatred, and a crippling fixation on the Civil War are cardinal virtues. Jones appears to channel Flannery O'Connor(read "Good Country People" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge")as he slashes out with razor wit, dazzles with pitch-perfect prose, and redeems himself with clear-eyed compassion. When the dust settles, Jones' engrossing narrative navigates a twisted but transcendent path from the slough of despond to the imperfect majesty of the human spirit.
Call it bow to tradition, a wink to poetic rhythm and a nod to family and tradition but this first novel marks a great beginning for this talented and thought-provoking writer. With words sometimes raw and always delicious, Mr Jones weaves a tapestry of intrigue, history and character development that is unique, educated and provocative. The author artfully blends Civil War history with the goings-on of a mysterious neighbor and daily life in a Southern town. As the title implies, the journal affords the reader an intimacy and perspective that is refreshing and, at times, shockingly self-revealing. I recommend this fine work to anyone who wants to have an affair with a book that is both prose and poetry.
This is not a book to read if you're impatient or in a hurry; it can't be skimmed! Its true Southern literature that has to be relished, word for word, page by page - like a fine aged whiskey or a hand-crafted micro-brew. I enjoyed the imagery and rich descriptions of place and person, plus the reflections on recent and past (Civil War) history; all seemed appropriate to the meandering story.
The interior of Henry Jennings' mind reveals a world that will give you pause about your own neighborhood. Jennings sports a curmudgeonly persona, even as he writes in his journal, but you, reader, will find yourself enchanted by this fellow's claims and musings regarding the world he lives in. He stitches his vitriol for the next-door neighbors into a family history that is wound tightly into the Civil War. The setting of Culpepper, West Virginia, seems ideal for the contrasting tales of grand heroism with the complaints from a shrunken life.
Like all engaging main characters, Jennings is a man with secrets. He opens the doors to those secrets slowly, with a crack here and a crack there. Under Jones' skilled hand, Jennings keeps a pace that moves between revelation and obfuscation with just the right mix. The facts may be myths or the myths, facts, as any unreliable narrator would confess. The author's talent with language and fresh images -- not all pretty (consider a man in a wheelchair left in the rain or a cigarette butt tossed into a wading pool) -- create a voice that beckons us to settle in and follow the winding journey with this cranky yet heart-melting guy to the last truth. This book is a pleasure.
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