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New. Text Appears Clean, this book is brand new, Nice looking book! Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 1889330701. ISBN/EAN: 9781889330709. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1560755651.
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Collectible-Near Fine. 6"x9". 220 pgs. Blue sky w/black mound of coal on front. Cover and text by Charles Casey Martin. A-FP. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. 6 1/2" slits horizontally along spine on back of cover. Like a seam of coal, that mineral she knows so well, Kiki DeLancey is a valuable find, and a rare one as well: the self-taught writer who seems to have sprung fully formed out of nowhere. In the pages of Coal Miner's Holiday (mining jargon for a forced layoff), DeLancey introduces us to the culture and characters of coal-mining towns bordering the Ohio River. Though she has a B.A. in political science and English, DeLancey never took a writing course, never had a writing mentor. She learned to write by reading such masters as William Faulkner and Sherwood Anderson, then writing, and rewriting her own stories. And DeLancey is, first and foremost, a storyteller. She tells the stories of unseen American immigrants-Polish, Greek, Irish, and others-who worked under the earth, in the dark...Source: Publisher.
