EAN: 9780571392087

KINGSOLVER BARBARA HOLDING THE LINE

It was the summer of 1983. Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as a scientific writer spends her
weekends cutting her teeth as a freelance journalist when she landed an assignment. Her
mission: was to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike.Over the year that followed Kingsolver stood
with those miners and their families  increasingly engaged and heartbroken. She recorded
stories of striking miners and their stunningly courageous wives  sisters and daughters. She
saw rights she'd taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about  as they
cried out to a wide world that either refused to believe what was happening to them  or didn't
care  or simply could not know.This book is the true story of the families who held the line 
and of Kingsolver's commitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered
themselves in their fight to keep their families from destitution.It is a story about the
sparks that fly when the flint of force strikes against human mettle

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