Appalachian Mountain Girl: Coming of Age in Coal Mine Country (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780897335362)

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.

Author: Rhoda Warren
ISBN-10: 0897335368
ISBN-13: 9780897335362
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2005
Pages: 175
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.00w x 0.49d