Run for the Elbertas

“A great storyteller . . . These vignettes of life in the southern Appalachians are an important contribution to the literature of the region.” —Chattanooga Times

In language both spare and colorful, sure in its command of Appalachian dialect and poetic in its evocation of mountain settings, James Still’s stories reveal the lives of his people—lives of privation and struggle, lived with honesty as ...