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Holding the Line
Barbara Kingsolver
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Description for Holding the Line
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From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Demon Copperhead: a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first time in the UK.
'[Kingsolver] means to save us by telling us stories . . . She comes closer than anyone else I know.' ANNE PATCHETT
'A mesmerising account of women finding their voices.' THE TIMES
'Readers will discover what made Kingsolver the novelist she is now.' NEW STATESMAN
'This is a report from the trenches of where the political meets the personal.' JOHN SAYLES
'A jaw-dropping and warm-hearted read ... Read moreWOMAN & HOME
It was the summer of 1983. Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as a scientific writer spending 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.
FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
On UK bestseller list w/c 12/06/2023-01/07/2023 for Paperback Fiction
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From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Demon Copperhead: a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first time in the UK.
'[Kingsolver] means to save us by telling us stories . . . She comes closer than anyone else I know.' ANNE PATCHETT
'A mesmerising account of women finding their voices.' THE TIMES
'Readers will discover what made Kingsolver the novelist she is now.' NEW STATESMAN
'This is a report from the trenches of where the political meets the personal.' JOHN SAYLES
'A jaw-dropping and warm-hearted read ... Read moreWOMAN & HOME
It was the summer of 1983. Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as a scientific writer spending 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.
FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
On UK bestseller list w/c 12/06/2023-01/07/2023 for Paperback Fiction
Show Less
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571392087
SKU
V9780571392087
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-94
About Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver is the global prize-winning and bestselling author of novels including Demon Copperhead, Unsheltered, Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays and creative non-fiction. Her work of narrative non-fiction is the influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated ... Read more
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