A single day in a miners' strike in West Virginia brings into sharp focus fatal events and romantic and other entanglements involving native-born and immigrant miners, mine owners, supervisors, Baldwin guards, strikebreakers, and scabs
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In a novel about casual and heedless acts that often lead to unthinkable results, Mary Lee Settle traces the fall of a West Virginia town that was first made rich by coal, then corrupted and destroyed by it. Set in 1912, this fourth volume of The Beulah Quintet - Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom - propels readers with astonishing immediacy to a fateful day in a coal miners' strike in which relatives of the Beulah dynasty, only dimly aware of their blood ties, confront one another on opposing sides of the dispute. Emotions escalate to a frenzy of violence as Mother Jones, leader of the striking miners, calls for action in a community devastated by Southern resignation and by guilt associated with selling out to Eastern investors.
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0345298020
- ISBN 13 9780345298027
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages288
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