Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-008980
Reviews
"[Bragg has] a true gift for great storytelling, the kind . . . that makes you think it's just a plain old story, until he gets to the end and you're either weeping or covered with goosebumps." --New Orleans Times-Picayune, Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "It is hard to think of a writer who reminds us more forcefully and wonderfully of what people and families are all about." -- New York Times Book Review, "[Bragg has] a true gift for great storytelling, the kind . . . that makes you think it's just a plain old story, until he gets to the end and you're either weeping or covered with goosebumps." -New Orleans Times-Picayune, "Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class southern life." - Publishers Weekly, “Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class southern life.� - Publishers Weekly, "It is hard to think of a writer who reminds us more forcefully and wonderfully of what people and families are all about." - New York Times Book Review, "It is hard to think of a writer who reminds us more forcefully and wonderfully of what people and families are all about." -- New York Times Book Review, Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "[Bragg has] a true gift for great storytelling, the kind . . . that makes you think it's just a plain old story, until he gets to the end and you're either weeping or covered with goosebumps." --New Orleans Times-Picayune, "It is hard to think of a writer who reminds us more forcefully and wonderfully of what people and families are all about." -- New York Times Book Review, Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class southern life." -- Publishers Weekly, Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "It is hard to think of a writer who reminds us more forcefully and wonderfully of what people and families are all about." -- New York Times Book Review, Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "[Bragg has] a true gift for great storytelling, the kind . . . that makes you think it's just a plain old story, until he gets to the end and you're either weeping or covered with goosebumps." --New Orleans Times-Picayune, “[Bragg has] a true gift for great storytelling, the kind . . . that makes you think it’s just a plain old story, until he gets to the end and you’re either weeping or covered with goosebumps.� -New Orleans Times-Picayune, Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class southern life." -- Publishers Weekly, "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class southern life." -- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Edition
22
CLASSIFICATION_METADATA
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Dewey Decimal
331.7/66700976163
Synopsis
In the spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama had come to the edge of all they had ever known. Across the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The century-old hardwood floors still trembled under whirling steel, and people worked on, in a mist of white air. The mill had become almost a living thing, rewarding the hardworking and careful with the best payday they ever had, but punishing the careless and clumsy, taking a finger, a hand, more. The mill was here before the automobile, before the flying machine, and the mill workers served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers. So, when death did come, no one had to ship their bodies home on a train. This is a mill story--not of bricks, steel, and cotton, but of the people who suffered it to live., Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4In the spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama had come to the edge of all they had ever known. Across the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The century-old hardwood floors still trembled under whirling steel, and people worked on, in a mist of white air. The mill had become almost a living thing, rewarding the hardworking and careful with the best payday they ever had, but punishing the careless and clumsy, taking a finger, a hand, more. The mill was here before the automobile, before the flying machine, and the mill workers served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers. So, when death did come, no one had to ship their bodies home on a train. This is a mill story--not of bricks, steel, and cotton, but of the people who suffered it to live.
LC Classification Number
HD8039.T42U6416 2011
Copyright Date
2011
ebay_catalog_id
4
