Wars of Heaven
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Through such characters as a miner with black lung disease, a train engineer whose wife has taken her own life, a robber, and a well-meaning eccentric turned circus clown, Currey evokes the loneliness and despair of his native West Virginia during the Depression. These six short stories and a novella are lyrically and powerfully written, flavored with "the worn smell of work and old oil and coal dust."