Lemuria is excited to welcome visiting writer Glenn Taylor! Today he will be in the store at 5:00 p.m. signing copies of his new book The Marrowbone Marble Company.
The novel is set in Taylor’s home state of West Virginia and focuses on the life of the lead character, Loyal Ledford. The storyline traces the progress of Mr. Ledford through three decades of change in American history, from World War II to the civil rights movement. Upon his return from military service in WW II, Ledford affiliates with the upstart Marrowbone Marble Company, and from there the novel catapults the reader into the world of civil rights and a war on poverty in rural West Virginia during the late 1940s and 1950s. I am really looking forward to hearing Mr. Taylor read from the book tonight.
I am always interested in authors who chose to write about their home states. Legends and stories from hometowns that are passed down through generations of town gossip always evolve beautifully into stories, and from the looks of Taylor’s debut novel The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), he has a way of turning folklore into fiction. Taggart is the story of Trenchmouth Taggart, also set in the author’s native state of West Virginia. The novel tells the story of a mysterious backwoods fellow with a troubled past. Although Taggart is also a work of fiction, Taylor acknowledges his local inspiration in the author’s note at the beginning of the book, writing, “This novel is a work of fiction. The places are real, and some of the events and individuals depicted herein were in fact real, as can be further studied in any of the excellent historical sources listed in the acknowledgments.”
Mr. Taylor dropped in a moment ago to get acquainted with the store before his signing tonight. We have already set his books up in our big signing booth, and Mr. Taylor browsed through the main store and fiction section checking out our books and cool t-shirts. We are excited to see his handsome smile return this evening!
Nell
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