- History, Man-woman relationships, Fiction, Women coal miners
The year is 1872. The place is Wigan, England, a coal town where rich mine owners live lavishly alongside miners no better than slaves. Into this dark, complicated world comes Jonathan Blair, who has accepted a commission to find a missing man.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 447
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Random House Audio, Books on Tape, Inc.
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- German, French, Russian, heb
- ISBN
- 9782266094108
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