Robert Gipe

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Thursday, April 5, 2018 - 7:00pm
2720 Frankfort Ave
Louisville, KY 40206

 

Robert Gipe lives in Harlan, Kentucky, and grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee. His fiction has appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Still, Motif, and Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel. Please join us for a reading and book signing from his new novel, “Weedeater”.

Weedeater: An Illustrated Novel By Robert Gipe Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9780821423097
Availability: The book is not currently in stock at our stores. Please call us for price and availability.
Published: Ohio University Press - February 18th, 2020

Finalist, 2019 Weatherford Award (Fiction)

A finalist for the 2019 Weatherford Award in Fiction, Weedeater  is a contemporary story of love and loss told by a pair of eastern Kentucky mountaineers: Gene, the lovelorn landscaper who bears witness to the misadventures of a family entangled in drugs, artmaking, and politics, a family beset by both environmental and self-d


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