The lives of the working class in West Virginia—a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed—are explored in this powerful yet tender collection of six short stories and a novella. They depict an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won dignity and are a lyrical rendering of times and places now largely gone—but the stirring clarity of people and landscape can persist in the reader's imagination.
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ISBN
9780988225206
Published
2016
Publisher
Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok