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At Home in the Heart of Appalachia by John A. O'Brien (2001, Hardcover)

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ISBN
9780394564517
Publication Year
2001
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
At Home in the Heart of Appalachia
Illustrator
Yes
Author
John A. O'brien
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Topic
United States / State & Local / General, Sociology / General, General, Customs & Traditions
Item Weight
21.9 Oz
Number of Pages
320 Pages
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0394564510
ISBN-13
9780394564517
eBay Product ID (ePID)
163060

Product Key Features

Book Title
At Home in the Heart of Appalachia
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
United States / State & Local / General, Sociology / General, General, Customs & Traditions
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
John A. O'brien
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
21.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-089765
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"John O'Brien's is an original voice, yet his talent allows for the welcome echoes of a distant American humanist tradition--Steinbeck, Agee, and Sherwood Anderson come to mind. Like them, O'Brien's powerful sense of place is indistinguishable from his empathy for those who inhabit it. The lovely, natural flow of his prose makes At Home In The Heart Of Appalachia a beautiful reading experience. --Stuart Dybek "This is a heartfelt book that you quickly get comfortable in. As endearing as a friend."--Edward Hoagland "Within minutes of opening this book, I felt at home in the heart of a real writer. There is such modesty and plainspoken beauty in John O'Brien's voice--like the modesty and beauty of Appalachia itself. O'Brien takes two old stories--our sense of place, and the estrangement of a father and son--and makes them fresh and moving all over again." --Paul Hendrickson
Dewey Decimal
975.04
Synopsis
John O'Brien's deeply evocative book re- veals a place and a way of life-and the lives of an estranged father and son whose differences rest, ironically, in their own powerful bonds to Appalachia. John O'Brien was born in Philadelphia, his father having left his beloved home in the West Virginia mountains after an impoverished childhood made all the more painful by family tragedy. Struggling to escape a father defeated by disappointment, displacement, and poverty, John too left home. When John decided to settle near his father's birthplace in West Virginia, he hoped to comprehend the elder O'Brien's attachment to the land, as well as the disabling fatalism he had carried north. What he discovered is hardly the mythic Appalachia most Americans imagine, but a world of extravagant beauty-lush with green mountains, deep forests, ice-cold trout streams, and small hill farms. The people we meet who inhabit this land are for the most part unpretentious, working class, straightforward, open, commonsensical, and easygoing. They tend to look back more than most Americans do, defining themselves by how they fit into an extended family that includes their ancestors. We are in a mountain culture that feels old and deeply rooted, that follows a traditional way of life. It is a world the author would finally love and call his own. We also come face-to-face with provincialism, intolerance, and-perhaps Appalachia's defining legacy-the horrors of the coalfields and chemical plants. We see clearly what rapacious greed and exploitation have done for generations to much of the landscape and to the lives of the people. And we learn of the stream of reformers and missionaries, ever ready to show Appalachia the way, whose real contributions tend to be negligible or absurd. In this clear-eyed, beautifully rendered telling of his story and his father's, John O'Brien gives us, as well, the history and true heart of Appalachia.
LC Classification Number
CT275.O24A3 2001

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  • by tbo351w
    Dec 17, 2019

    Great read!!!

    I could not put this book down. I grew up across the Potomac from Piedmont. I also have my home now in Franklin WV and did see Mr. O'Brien here in town. I wish I had spoken with him then. An extremely interesting person I think. I loved this book. It will still be an I treating read even if one is not familiar with the life in small towns or with the locations mentioned.

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