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Something's Rising

Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal

Something's Rising( )
Author: House, Silas
Howard, Jason
Foreword by: Crowther, Hal
Smith, Lee
ISBN:978-0-8131-2546-6
Publication Date:Apr 2009
Publisher:University Press of Kentucky
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $40.00
Book Description:

Something's Rising collects oral histories from a diverse group of individuals from Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Virginia who are fighting mountaintop removal, an ecologically devastating form of coal mining. Taken together, these voices stand as a testament of what it means to be an Appalachian and demonstrate the value of preserving a culture's history and spirit through the stories of its people. The authors have chosen twelve unique voices including Jean Ritchie, the...
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Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Biography & Autobiography / Rich & Famous
History / United States / State & Local / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1.25 Inches
Book Weight:1.4 Pounds
Author Biography
House, Silas (Author)
Lee Smith is a novelist, short story writer, and educator. She was born in 1944 in Grundy, Virginia. Smith attended Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia.

In her senior year at Hollins, Smith entered a Book-of-the-Month Club contest, submitting a draft of a novel called The Last Day the Dog Bushes Bloomed. The book, one of 12 entries to receive a fellowship, was published in 1968. Smith wrote reviews for local papers and continued to write short stories. Her first collection of short stories, Cakewalk, was published in 1981.

Smith taught at North Carolina State University. Her novel, Oral History, published in 1983, was a Book-of-the-Month Club featured selection. She has received two O. Henry Awards, the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction, the North Carolina Award for Fiction, the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Award, and the Academy Award in Literature presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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