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by Settle, Mary Lee
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page. Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 038547699X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385476997
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Doubleday,, 1995.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The 20th century as seen and lived by a woman of the South - joining the Red Cross after making her debut at the beginning of the depression, she becomes embroiled in a miners' strike in Kentucky - later she volunteers for the war in Spain, and returning to the US in the 60's, she becomes involved in the Civil Rights movement. 376 pp.
Synopsis
When Melinda Kregg, a young southern belle, witnesses the bloody Kentucky mining strikes of the 1930s, her innocence is shattered. This saga chronicles her joys, sorrows, and ministrations to the social wound on her journey through the maelstrom of the twentieth century. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Awarded the 1995 Lillian Smith Book Award.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33072
- Title
- CHOICES
- Author
- Settle, Mary Lee
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 038547699X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385476997
- Publisher
- Doubleday,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1995.
- Keywords
- fiction, kentucky, civil rights movement,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Southern Writers and the South;
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