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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite novels.This book still haunts me. <br/><br/>For regional writers: a fine use of dialect, without creating or living up to stereotypical renderings of characters from Appalachia.<br/><br/>For students of American literature: a rich, meaty example of the literary movement of nat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/653843">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[First published in 1954, this Dreiseresque novel chronicles the movement of a family from from rural Kentucky to Detroit during World War II.  The husband (Clotis Nevels) works in a factory; his wife Gertie takes in laundry and occasionally sells hand-whittled crucifixes and dolls; the children amus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26288921">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book when I was 10 or 11 and cried all the way through it. I was mad at my mother for letting me read it because it was so sad, but later in life realized this book helped to shape me into the person I became. I have looked for this book off and on over the last 40 plus years and am very...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50760436">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book just made my &quot;greatest novels of all time&quot; list.  Probably becuase it pretty much sums up my political ideologies in a simple and beautiful narrative.  It was recommended to me by my grandmother-in-law and I wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone else.  I dream to have a life ju...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25817011">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I rated this a 5 because I read it at least 15 years ago &amp; it still remains one of my favorite books.  A TV movie was made in the 80's based on it (Jane Fonda starred) -- did not come close to doing the book justice.  <br/>An Appalachian woman, along with her husband and children, moves to Detroit ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/911765">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was depressing, didactic, full of despair and in parts, disturbingly graphic (and this review is brought to you by the letter D). That said, it was an amazing book and I can't believe I made it to this advanced age without reading it. A Kentucky farmwoman and her children reluctantly follo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75595868">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Someone told me &quot;Harriet Arnow's characters never catch a break.&quot; That's sorta how it is in the era she writes about in Appalachia.<br/>Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton toured in my home county and town when they researched the TV movie of this book.  My brother in law talked to them outside t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49980954">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It is a fine writer who can make you love being miserable.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book I have read many times; every few years I long to get back in touch with Gertie Nevels and her back-country, simple ways.  Gertie is a big woman in every way, tall and galant and strong enough to endure hardships most of us will never know.  She is transplanted from her simple life in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46493302">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, I have not been this moved by a work of fiction in some time. This book, although a bit slow at times, was very powerful and I feel like I learned quite a bit. Set during WWII it begins with a family living in rural Kentucky. They are a simple family of 7 who live close to the land and each oth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14075368">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautiful story that will haunt you long after you are finished reading it.  I have given it as a gift as one of my favorites.  It isn't often that one finds a work of fiction as powerful as this one.  It tells of a woman who rose above a life of bitter reality.  It is a very moving story.  Everyo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58769120">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember some scenes from this story vividly two decades after reading it.  What does that imply about the power of this story.  I can't talk about those scenes without giving spoilers though.  I am just noting that here now because I am currently reading Arnow's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/720152.The_Weedkiller_s_Daughter" title="The Weedkiller's Daughter by Harriette Simpson Arnow">The Weedkiller's Daughter</a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48300021">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my favorite book of the year - Incredible writing, very rich thematically. I could go on @ length (and did in book club!). Yes, the story can be crushing but the writing is so beautiful - Keep going... Gertie's story stayed with me long after I was done with the book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My very favorite book about Kentucky and Appalachia. I love the movie too. It is the standard against which all sequent books of this genre is measured. Unforgettable characters who find a place in your heart and mind forever. Harriette Simpson Arnow was simply amazing for her time and place.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good book and the historical aspects were very interesting.  It was a total downer, though, so head's up on that. I was a little frustrated with the main character and sometimes had trouble remaining sympathetic, but overall it was a great read. ]]></body>
    
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