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1) Weeds
Author
Publisher
Feminist Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Bright and independent-minded, Judith Pippinger Blackford aspires to a life of freedom and self-expression beyond the tobacco fields of Kentucky. But her dreams are crushed by the reality of farm life, an endless cycle of tending children, livestock, and menfolk, while trying to scratch a living out of the unyielding clay soil.
Based on the author's own attempts to raise tobacco, this pioneering naturalistic novel recounts the dire effects of her...
2) Rennie's way
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
"An intriguing mix of family history, lore, mountain culture, and folkways, skillfully bound together with an all-but-transparent thread of fiction." -Library Journal
When Rennie Slone's mother dies in childbirth, the twelve-year-old girl is unexpectedly thrust into adulthood. She must keep house for her father, an itinerant preacher who finds little time for family, and raise her newborn sister-a task that becomes Rennie's lifelong passion. Against...
Author
Series
Publisher
J.S. Sanders & Co
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
One of the most remarkable novels every written by an American woman about women. First published in 1943, the story follows a woman's flight from Manhattan and her unfaithful husband to her rural ancestral home. Southern Classics Series.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Sisters Rebecca Jean, Carleen, and Irene reunite to celebrate their mother's seventy-fifth birthday in their hometown of Blue Lick Springs, Kentucky, where Rebecca becomes involved in a stand-off with a development company, Carleen finds the courage to confront her philandering husband, and Irene, divorced five times, looks for yet another fresh start.
Author
Publisher
The Viking Press
Pub. Date
1926.
Language
English
Description
Roberts's novel traces the coming of age of Ellen Chesser, the daughter of a poor itinerant farmer. Against all privations and the forces that would subdue her, Ellen is sustained by a sense of wonder and by an awareness of her own being. Reduced to the bare elements of life, her world becomes a ceremony of daily duties that bind her to the natural world and her family. "The Time of Man" stands as a beautifully written tribute to the human spirit
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the latest installment in Wendell Berry's long story about the citizens of Port William, Hannah Coulter sorts through her memories. Her first husband, Virgil, was declared "missing in action" shortly after the Battle of the Bulge; and after she married Nathan Coulter, about all he could tell Hannah about the Battle of Okinawa was "Ignorant boys, killing each other." The community was stunned and diminished by the war, with some of its sons lost...