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    <body><![CDATA[ Frank, and often depressing look into the Kentucky coal miners' lives. Exceptionally written but I did find the dialect difficult to understand at times. I can see why many say this is an underread classic, it really is masterfully written, but it isn't easy to read. What a sad hard life they lead,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76362814">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a stunning work. I'm sorry it's so underread as it deserves a much larger audience than it has. Beautifully under-played, the ending is emotionally devastating. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An incredible insight into life in the coal camps of Kentucky.  I enjoyed this look at life because I assume this is how my early ancestors lived.  My family (even named Middleton eerily enough) lived and worked and struggled in this manner, I'm certain, in Kentucky.  And this was a really good nove...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33813954">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[First published in 1940 and now reprinted with a perceptive foreword by Dean Cadle, James Still's novel River of Earth has become one of the classics of Appalachian literature.  <p>It is the story, seen through the eyes of a small boy, of three years in the life of his family and their kin. He sees his parents pulled between the meager farm with its sense of independence and the mining camp with its uncertain promise of material prosperity. In his world privation, violence, and death are part of everyday life, accepted and endured. Yet, withal, it is a world of dignity, love, and humor, of natural beauty, which Still evokes in sharp, poetic images. No writer has caught more effectively the vividness of mountain speech or shown more honestly the trials and joys of mountain life.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Little vignettes of a family living off various coal mines in Kentucky.  The endless but quiet lamentation of the mother who wants a better life for her children.  But this comes through in a dialect completely foreign to me.  Some of the sentences are filled with nouns I can't define, but which sou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2515882">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[James Still's best known (but still little known in many circles) novel of life in the hills. Amazing example of the use of writing in dialect. His renderings of rural life in the depression vacillate between lamentations of the economic trials and hallelujahs of the natural beauty. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Still's seminal work, and one of the best entrance points for an exploration of Appalachian literature.  This is a beautiful bildungsroman, with gorgeous reflections on landscape, family, and poverty.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An intriguing story of life in Appalachia. It has enriched my Kentucky experience. ]]></body>
    
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