John Burnside: Ashland & Vine: Burnside John [2017] hardback CLIMA HOUSES OF CIVIL WAR AMERICA

HOUSES OF CIVIL WAR AMERICA demonstrates - through these landmark homes - the nation we were and the nation we became

before transferring to the West End and then Broadway

He relishes them

Samantha convinces him to leave it behind

in his eighties

John Burnside: Ashland & Vine: Burnside John [2017] hardback CLIMA HOUSES OF CIVIL WAR AMERICAIt is 1999. Kate Lambert, a grieving, semi alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral history documentary. The woman, Jean Culver, declines, but makes her a bizarre counter offer: if Kate can stay sober for four days, she will tell her a story. And if she can stay sober beyond that, there will be another, and then another, amounting to the entire history of one family's life. Though still shattered by the death of her