Destiny: A Novel of the Bluegrass and the Hills
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by George Catlin, Johan Christian Dahl and Winslow Homer. A Kentucky mountain boy, born into a feud and educated out of it, goes down to the Bluegrass and the law schools and comes back — and the mountains have not agreed to change. Buck was a Kentucky lawyer who set his fiction among moonshiners and feudists in the country he practiced in; the courtroom and the still are both drawn by someone who had been in them. Fifty-seven plates by painters including Winslow Homer and Edvard Munch follow the mountain and hill country that shapes the novel, from burnt peaks and bridle paths to climbers at rest.
Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by George Catlin, Johan Christian Dahl and Winslow Homer. A Kentucky mountain boy, born into a feud and educated out of it, goes down to the Bluegrass and the law schools and comes back — and the mountains have not agreed to change. Buck was a Ken...
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Charles Neville Buck (1879–1957) was an American journalist and novelist. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he worked as a reporter and editorial writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal and later lived in New York. His fiction drew on the landscape and people of the Kentucky mountains; notable works include Destiny (1916).
Charles Neville Buck (1879–1957) was an American journalist and novelist. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he worked as a reporter and editorial writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal and later lived in New York. His fiction drew on the landscape and people of the Kentucky mountains; notable work...
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