{"product_id":"a-wounded-snake-9781947504080","title":"A Wounded Snake","description":"Joseph Anthony's fine historical novel A Wounded Snake presents a compassionate, yet unsentimental, study of race, politics, law, and lawlessness in the near-South, turn of the 20th Century city of Lexington, Kentucky. Local information about events and personalities is set up as precisely as lead type placed, letter by letter, onto a printing press, to reveal line by line, in stark black and white, how a century ago \"a good truth....did more than a fist in the face could ever do.\" In today's atmosphere of renewed racial tension, A Wounded Snake serves to remind the reader that \"we cannot be in this place we�ve been.\" For although \"forgetting is what we do best in the South,\" it's time to remember and change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--Christina Lovin, author of A Stirring in the Dark and Echo: Poems \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnthony, Joseph G.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Joseph G. Anthony moved from Manhattan�s Upper West Side to Hazard, Kentucky in 1980. Anthony, an English professor for 35 years, regularly contributes essays and poems to anthologies, including a poem and story in Kentucky�s Twelve Days of Christmas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis most recent novel, Wanted: Good Family (Bottom Dog Press) was described by the Lexington Herald-Leader as �masterfully written and well grounded in Kentucky history and mannerisms [exploring] race, class, relationship and the potential for change.� \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis previous books include two short story collections, Camden Blues and Bluegrass Funeral plus two novels�Peril, Kentucky, and Pickering�s Mountain. Appalachian Heritage�s said of Pickering that: �Anthony balances multiple voices with restraint�[he makes] us feel for their individual pain and sorrow, their prejudice and greed and lack of guile and fully-realized humanity.� \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnthony lives in Lexington, Kentucky with his wife of forty years, Elise Mandel. They have three grown children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottom Dog Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50857351020818,"sku":"9781947504080","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ecb2be0e-ab7d-43a1-94d2-89fa3adf8933.jpg?v=1737528662","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-wounded-snake-9781947504080","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}