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To Make My Bread by Grace Lumpkin (1996, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press

ISBN-100252065018

ISBN-139780252065019

eBay Product ID (ePID)110510

Product Key Features

Book TitleTo Make My Bread

Number of Pages424 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1996

TopicFamily Life, General

GenreFiction

AuthorGrace Lumpkin

Book SeriesRadical Novel Reconsidered Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN95-003561

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal813/.52

SynopsisA story of the growth of the new South, To Make My Bread revolves around a family of Appalachian mountaineers - small farmers, hunters, and moonshiners - driven by economic conditions to the milltown and transformed into millhands, strikers, and rebels against the established order. Recognized as one of the major works on the Gastonia textile ......, A story of the growth of the new South, To Make My Bread revolves around a family of Appalachian mountaineers--small farmers, hunters, and moonshiners--driven by economic conditions to the milltown and transformed into millhands, strikers, and rebels against the established order. Recognized as one of the major works on the Gastonia textile strike, Grace Lumpkin's novel is also important for anyone interested in cultural or feminist history as it deals with early generations of women radicals committed to addressing the difficult connections of class and race. Suzanne Sowinska's introduction looks at Lumpkin's volatile career and this book's critical reception. Originally published in 1932 "[The book's] meaning rises out of people in dramatic conflict with other people and with the conditions of their life. . . . [Lumpkin] treats her theme with a craftsman's and a psychologist's respect. The novel springs naturally from its author's immersion in and personal knowledge of her absorbing subject material." -- The New York Times "Unpretentious . . . written in a simple and matter-of-fact prose, and yet reading it has been a more real, more satisfying experience than that which almost any other recent work of fiction has given me. I cannot imagine how anyone could read it and not be moved by it." -- The Nation "A beautiful and sincere novel, outstanding." -- The New Republic The late, A story of the growth of the new South, To Make My Bread revolves around a family of Appalachian mountaineers - small farmers, hunters, and moonshiners - driven by economic conditions to the milltown and transformed into millhands, strikers, and rebels against the established order. Recognized as one of the major works on the Gastonia textile strike, Grace Lumpkin's novel is also important for anyone interested in cultural or feminist history as it deals with early generations of women radicals committed to addressing the difficult connections of class and race. Suzanne Sowinska's introduction looks at Lumpkin's volatile career and this book's critical reception. Originally published in 1932 ''[The book's] meaning rises out of people in dramatic conflict with other people and with the conditions of their life. . . . [Lumpkin] treats her theme with a craftsman's and a psychologist's respect. The novel springs naturally from its author's immersion in and personal knowledge of her absorbing subject material.'' -- The New York Times ''Unpretentious . . . written in a simple and matter-of-fact prose, and yet reading it has been a more real, more satisfying experience than that which almost any other recent work of fiction has given me. I cannot imagine how anyone could read it and not be moved by it.'' -- The Nation ''A beautiful and sincere novel, outstanding.'' -- The New Republic The late

LC Classification NumberPS3523.U54T6 1995