| Appalachian Mountain Girl: Coming of Age in Coal Mine Country Contributor(s): Warren, Rhoda (Author) |
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ISBN: 0897335368 ISBN-13: 9780897335362 Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: In the compelling memoir, Rhoda Warren, whose father was a miner, introduces us to Letcher, KY in 1930. She takes us inside this isolated community, whose denizens lived difficult, poverty-stricken lives. This is the story of the Bailey family's escape from the grueling Corbin Glow mines to find a better life in Letcher--"The prettiest place in the world." Rhoda Warren's account is three-dimensional: with humor and warmth, but without sentimentality. She recounts the lives of these mining people whose religion and "family values" buttressed and sustained them. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5" W x 8.08" (0.41 lbs) 175 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1930's - Cultural Region - Appalachians - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Geographic Orientation - Kentucky - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the compelling memoir, Rhoda Warren, whose father was a miner, introduces us to Letcher, KY in 1930. She takes us inside this isolated community, whose denizens lived difficult, poverty-stricken lives. This is the story of the Bailey family's escape from the grueling Corbin Glow mines to find a better life in Letcher--The prettiest place in the world. Rhoda Warren's account is three-dimensional: with humor and warmth, but without sentimentality. She recounts the lives of these mining people whose religion and family values buttressed and sustained them. |