Appalachian Mountain Girl: Coming of Age in Coal Mine Country

By Rhoda Bailey Warren

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897335368
• ISBN13: 9780897335362
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.1"