My heart and my flesh

About This Book

1927. American poet and novelist, Roberts is best known for her novels and stories of the Kentucky mountain people, whose dialect and customs she realistically portrayed. The Prologue As a child, Luce was running to the store to get a small can of oil, for it was growing dark and she had the lamp to fill. Across the street the lamplighter was lifting a burning swab of waste to the street-lamp, a gasoline lamp on the top of a high post. The lamplighter stood on a ladder to lift the brand, and when the lamp was lit he would take the ladder on his shoulder and walk away at an even step, the same ...