Anthony S. Abbott
North Carolina Bookwatch

Leaving Maggie Hope
(Novello Festival Press; 2003)
Winner of the 2003 Novello Literary Award, Leaving Maggie Hope is the first novel from Davidson College professor and reknowned poet Anthony Abbott. A story of one boy's struggles to adjust to a new life while overcoming his family's tragic history, Abbott's debut combines the elegant prose of his poetry with a fiction writer's deep and personal understanding of the young man's story. In this episode, Abbot discusses his award-winning debut novel-a coming-of-age odyssey that novelist Jill McCorkle calls "a beautiful story, a story of hope."

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