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Articles by Ralph Bowden
Strangers on a Train
An express train traveling from Normandy to Paris was, in 1895, an embodiment of modernity. In Emma Donoghue’s new novel, The Paris Express, the train, touted as the fastest transportation in the world, represents a melding of mechanical and social engineering, an invention that is changing the face of the nation.
Funeral at a Dumpster
Stuff accumulates. That’s sounds like an axiom Aristotle would have written, or should have, though the Greeks of his time weren’t plagued with the material excess characteristic of modern, developed economies. Even people who have been wary of the universal tendency to accumulate stuff and lived a comparatively non-accumulating life are still faced with disposing of all those personal boxes and artifacts when the years ahead shrink.
Karen Spears Zacharias winds up Appalachian novel trilogy with 'Christian Bend'
Nestled in a loop of the Holston River well downstream of Kingsport, Tennessee, Christian Bend is the kind of small community where everyone knows everybody’s business, sorrows, sins and strengths. In "Christian Bend," the last of three novels exploring the lives of the community’s residents, Karen Spears Zacharias weaves together the traumas and secrets developed in "Mother of Rain" and "Burdy," adding to the complex fabric set up in them.
Jim Minick’s novel of faith healing begins with a disastrous fire
Jim Minick will discuss "Fire Is Your Water" at Union Ave. Books at 2 p.m. Oct. 15. In Jim Minick’s debut novel, "Fire Is Your Water," it’s summer 1953 in the mountains of central Pennsylvania. Ada and Will, both about 20, work at the Howard Johnson’s service plaza on the turnpike. The relationship that develops is rocky, in part because of their spiritual differences. Ada, a church-going farm girl, has earned a reputation for “powwowing,” the traditional faith-healing of some Pennsylvania Dutch.
Before Extinction
In The Last Neanderthal , Claire Cameron takes on the daunting imaginative task of rendering into words the life of an individual who uses few words and who thinks in other terms. Her Neanderthal character, Girl, uses senses and instincts that are necessary for survival in a harsh natural environment but have withered away in modern humans.
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