- Fiction, Coal miners, Coal mines and mining, West virginia, fiction
With the narrative sweep and power of an American epic, Giardina's new novel is the saga of an Appalachian mining community, Blackberry Creek, West Virginia, and its fight to survive disaster, oppression, and neglect. Spanning the period from the 1930s to the present, the novel builds to a shattering climax.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Denise Giardina
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 360
- Publisher
- Ivy Books, Norton
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393030969
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“WHEN MY DADDY DIED I WAS AN INFANT, LYING ON HIS CHEST with his thumb caught tight in my fist.”
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