Migrants, sharecroppers, mountaineers.
Record details
- Physical Description: xviii, 653 pages. : color illustrations. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: [1st ed.]
- Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, [1971]
Content descriptions
General Note: | "An Atlantic Monthly Press book." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The setting -- The land -- The method -- The children -- Uprooted children -- Stranded children -- Hidden children -- The world -- The world of the hollows -- The miners need their bosses -- No one should be bossed around -- Owing them -- Like my teacher -- God cannot be questioned -- The people are weak, weak and rundown -- The near die down there, but they try to live -- Hugh McCaslin -- The world of the black belt -- The bossman -- The foreman -- The teacher -- The sheriff -- The preacher -- The yeoman neighbor -- The world of the wanderers -- Their father, their mother, their everything -- The growers -- Guarding the animals and children -- Selling gas to the children -- Teaching the wanderers -- Saving their souls, their damned souls -- The rural life -- The rural mind -- Whose strengths, whose weaknesses -- A proud and fierce spirit -- The mind of Christ in their heads -- Rural youth -- Winston -- Myrna -- Ronald -- Rural upheaval -- Rural religion. |
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