The Truest Pleasure

Robert Morgan's fiction is "about people who have a deep sense of themselves, who were not created by a huge and complicated society but by a small, simple one in which individual character sprouted slowly and in trial bloomed... wise, eloquent."

Robert Morgan's lyric mountain language is equal to the epic sweep of history, to the grandeur of the land itself.

Robert Morgan has long been one of this country's finest poets. Now he shows that his hand is just as steady in fiction.

The Truest Pleasure is direct, dramatic, and totally convincing in its portrayal of a lost rural world.

There is comfort and humor in Morgan's evocation of country people trying to survive.