The Well And The Mine - Couverture souple

Phillips, Gin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844086542 ISBN 13 : 9781844086542

Editeur : Virago Press Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

An assured, inspiring debut which demonstrates the power of the human spirit to give comfort in times of hardship. In 1931 Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches from the darkness of her back porch as a strange woman lifts the cover off the family well and tosses a baby in without a word. It is the height of the Depression; while Tess's father, Albert, performs backbreaking and dangerous work at the mine, her mother, Leta, makes do without meat on her table. But the family are luckier than most; the food they can grow on their plot of land has so far saved them from the crippling poverty and near-starvation that besets their neighbours. As Tess tries to unravel the mystery of the woman at the well, a portrait emerges of a family and a community struggling to survive the darkest of times. Resonant, vivid and clear-eyed in its portrayal of both the best and the worst of human nature, The Well and the Mine is a stunning novel about love, hope and the importance of doing the right thing.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gin Phillips lives in Birmingham, Alabama; THE WELL AND THE MINE was turned down by every mainstream US publisher to whom it was submitted and was eventually published by Hawthorne, a tiny press in Oregon. It went on to win the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and the paperback rights went to Penguin US.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virago Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844086542
• ISBN 13: 9781844086542
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible