{"product_id":"black-diamonds-catherine-young-9781948814836","title":"Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Award winner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Young's memoir of her hometown is as powerful a picture as Inness' painting, revealing its harsh transformation a century later.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--BOOKLIST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1855, the landscape painter George Inness began work on his commissioned painting The Lackawanna Valley. A century later, a girl in Scranton, Pennsylvania, looks out over her coal-strewn homeland wishing for beauty and wondering where the artist had stood with his canvas. The interplay between the two stories is at the heart of Catherine Young's memoir Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored By Coal. Young invites readers into a world now vanished, but which lingers in shimmering portraits. A lyric work of environmental history, Black Diamonds gives voice to the birthplace of the industrial revolution in North America and the consequences for the people and the forgotten valley that once powered the nation.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Catherine Young\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1948814838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948814836\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Torrey House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2023 pg. 26","brand":"Catherine Young","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44129036304639,"sku":"9781948814836","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8037a337-6c60-4a44-9480-ace1ee25a186.jpg?v=1687461713","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-diamonds-catherine-young-9781948814836","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}