| Appalachian Mountain Girl: Coming of Age in Coal Mine Country Contributor(s): Warren, Rhoda (Author) |
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ISBN: 0897334647 ISBN-13: 9780897334648 Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers OUR PRICE: $20.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1998 Annotation: The story of the Bailey family's escape from the grueling Corbin Glow mines to find a better life in Letcher, Kentucky -- "the prettiest place in the world." With humor and warmth Rhoda Warren recounts the lives of these mining people whose religion and family values sustained them. When Rhoda marries and moves to New York, it seems that her dreams of a better life have been realized. Yet scenes of Letcher always "hovered in the backroads of her memory." When she revisits her homeland, this time as a "New Yorker, " she finds that Letcher is no longer the place of her memories. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 98026785 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.3" W x 8.27" (0.63 lbs) 174 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1930's - Cultural Region - Appalachians - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Geographic Orientation - Kentucky - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Appalachian Mountain Girl is a sensitive and beautifully written autobiographical account of a childhood in the coalmine district of Depression-era Kentucky. With humor and warmth--but without sentimentality--Rhoda Warren recounts the lives of these mining people whose religion and family values buttressed and sustained them. As a young girl, Rhoda began to catch glimpses of the world outside her narrow mountain community through the stories in True Confessions magazine and the pictures in the Montgomery Ward catalog--which to her seemed like "visions of a fairy world." When Rhoda married and moved to a small town in New York State, it seemed that her dreams of a better life had been realized. Yet scenes of Letcher always "hovered in the back roads of her memory." When she revisited her homeland, this time as a New Yorker, Rhoda found that Letcher was no longer the place of her memories. |