The Teeth of the Souls A Novel
| Author/creator | Yates, Steve Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Moon City Press [Imprint] Springfield : Department of English Chicago : Chicago Distribution Center [Distributor] |
| Description | 480 p. 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
| Summary | Annotation As the sequel to "Morkan s Quarry," "The Teeth of the Souls" tells the story of a marriage betrayed, a lifelong and secret love, and an Ozarks city riven by an Easter lynching.The story begins just after the Civil War when Leighton Shea Morkan, son of Irish immigrants, marries Patricia Grunhaagen Weitzer, daughter of a German banking family. Yet he can t let go of his childhood love and wartime confidante, the house hand and former slave, Judith. Both unions produce children, one a shrouded secret, and one the heir to the Morkan legacy: the limestone quarries of Springfield, Missouri, and the bloody past, what Judith calls The Teeth of the Souls.Grounded in broad historical research and spanning Missouri s reconstruction, vigilantism, and fall from grace, "The Teeth of the Soul"s chronicles the violent melding of immigrant strains Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and African American into the fabric of the Ozarks." |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780913785539 |
| ISBN | 0913785539 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780913785539 |
| Stock number | 00032862 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |