Oreads

Lyrical, emotionally charged, moving and heartbreaking, Oreads is a literary treat that will keep you compelled right to the very last page and beyond.

At fourteen, Cassie Wolphe’s way of life in Appalachia is being changed by the influx of modernity/postmodernity. She is in love with Jake McCollum, believes she will marry him and constructs her life around this central act, but like her brother, Ben, Jake rejects a life he believes offers nothing but hard work and poverty.

Forced to make a decision between her love of Jake and her love of the mountains, Cassie finds she can't leave, a choice which may define her life forever.

At once lyrical, emotionally charged, moving and heartbreaking, Oreads is a literary treat that will keep you compelled right to the very last page and beyond.

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While Dr. John F. Lavelle is not an “Appalachian writer,” the location, with it’s distinctive culture, is a favorite setting for his many short stories and now his new novel, Oreads.

He is Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Communication, Florida Institute of Technology. John Lavelle is actively writing and publishing short stories and novels. He is published in Red Rock Review, Spank the Carp, No Record Press, Trajectory, Stone Canoe, and others.

His academic book Blue Collar Theoretically: A Post-Marxist Approach to Working Class Literature was published by McFarland & Co.

Dr. Lavelle earned his PhD in American Literature, contemporary British literature, and literary theory from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA. 2008; M.A. in Creative Writing, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fl. 2001; M.A. in English, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. 1999; B.A. in English, Cum Laude, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. 1998.

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