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This is an expanded edition of Allegiance, a collection of linked stories by celebrated Kentucky author Gurney Norman. The new edition features an introduction by the author, a foreword by writer Ed McClanahan, and a cover painting by Appalachian artist Pam Oldfield Meade. Allegiance is an autobiography told through stories, a personal journey into Norman's life, place, and consciousness. The pieces span forty years of Norman's writing, sometimes told in the voice of Norman's fictional narrator Wilgus Collier, sometimes in stream of consciousness writing, and there is a selection of nonfiction pieces in the book's epilogue. Allegiance follows Norman/Collier's struggle to understand his working-class Appalachian childhood and navigate midlife alcoholism and depression. From the coalfields of Appalachia to the center of the 1960s counterculture and back again to Kentucky, Norman's journey has been a life of many movements. In Allegiance, the trip spirals on with stories that are told "with sly good humor and vast generosity of spirit" (McClanahan). Published by Old Cove Press