House All Stilled: A Novel [Hardcover]

A.G. Harmon (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press; 1 edition (October 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572332026
• ISBN-13: 978-1572332027
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,874,902 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting story, elegantly told, December 13, 2002

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Pamela Sheridan (Nashvile, TN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: House All Stilled: A Novel (Hardcover)

At times the images are wrenching, but always a page turner. Harmon paints a vivid picture of a young boy coming of age in the rural South. Laced with tender and funny moments, Henry is caught in a battle between his mother's aspirations and his father's history, all the while struggling with his own changing body. Not your typical piece of regional fiction, A House All Stilled is timeless, poignant and elegantly written.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A House All Stilled, December 9, 2002

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Carol C Rives (Jackson, MS United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: House All Stilled: A Novel (Hardcover)

Here is a novel that introduces us to three generations of men all seeking to find approval and understanding. The young boy wants his fathers approval but the pressure put upon him make it difficult. He is forced to reach maturity at an early age.This is not always pretty but it has its uplifting moments. The book is a page turner, and I know we have a promising new writer on the scene.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reality embodied in fiction. Harmon delivers., November 19, 2003

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Anonymous "Reviewer" (Alexandria, Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: House All Stilled: A Novel (Hardcover)

Harom walks along a foreboding tightrope using a long balancing stick of reality. This is not a feel-good book... it's one that grasps the reader from page one and challenges you to continue the walk across the string. Along the way, you will find no saving graces, but ways not to fall down... ways to cope by turning the page.
You won't find policially correct nonsense in this work... you'll find real emotions and real ways the characters deal with them. You'll find yourself in more than one place in more than one character. There are no heros... just people living the best they can with the circumstances they got.
Harmon is a storyteller and not a psychologist. Thank God. Here's a story that makes us interested and want to think. It's refreshing that he doesn't give any answers or excuses... he just tells about how people live and relate in this story.
The details of coming-of-age in a boy's life amidst difficult circumstances is not a new phenominom... here we just get it told in a real way.
Definitly worth reading... it won't take long, either. Once you get started, you won't want to put the book down. Harmon has proven to be a modern master storyteller. Let's hope for more from this writer.