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This novel offers a powerful account of family life and labor conflicts, told through the eyes of a tough, resilient Appalachian woman who is, according to Richard Wright, "one of the most impressive proletarian characters in our literature." Daughter of the Hills exposes the economic conditions of the working class and the scarcity of opportunities for working-class women, but also tells the story of a loving marriage that endures despite severe hardships.
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One of the most impressive proletarian characters in our literature.
Richard Wright
"Myra Page has captured the feeling tone of the harsh struggle for life in a mining community. She has brought to us a woman who is remarkable not because she represents a unique experience, but because she evokes the lives of so many non-urban women."
Alice Kessler-Harris
"The heroism of Dolly Hawkins lies both in her resistance to exploitation and in her sheer love of lifeher capacity to live it fully even in the face of deprivation and loss. This is a text that refuses to sever sexuality and work, love and social protest. "Daugher of the Hills," in fact, is both a heterosexual love story and a novel of social protest. The combination is curiously rare in American literary history."
Deborah S. Rosenfelt"
"One of the most impressive proletarian characters in our literature."
--Richard Wright "Myra Page has captured the feeling tone of the harsh struggle for life in a mining community. She has brought to us a woman who is remarkable not because she represents a unique experience, but because she evokes the lives of so many non-urban women."
--Alice Kessler-Harris "The heroism of Dolly Hawkins lies both in her resistance to exploitation and in her sheer love of life--her capacity to live it fully even in the face of deprivation and loss. This is a text that refuses to sever sexuality and work, love and social protest. Daugher of the Hills, in fact, is both a heterosexual love story and a novel of social protest. The combination is curiously rare in American literary history."
--Deborah S. Rosenfelt
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Richard Wright
"Myra Page has captured the feeling tone of the harsh struggle for life in a mining community. She has brought to us a woman who is remarkable not because she represents a unique experience, but because she evokes the lives of so many non-urban women."
Alice Kessler-Harris
"The heroism of Dolly Hawkins lies both in her resistance to exploitation and in her sheer love of lifeher capacity to live it fully even in the face of deprivation and loss. This is a text that refuses to sever sexuality and work, love and social protest. "Daugher of the Hills," in fact, is both a heterosexual love story and a novel of social protest. The combination is curiously rare in American literary history."
Deborah S. Rosenfelt"
"One of the most impressive proletarian characters in our literature."
--Richard Wright "Myra Page has captured the feeling tone of the harsh struggle for life in a mining community. She has brought to us a woman who is remarkable not because she represents a unique experience, but because she evokes the lives of so many non-urban women."
--Alice Kessler-Harris "The heroism of Dolly Hawkins lies both in her resistance to exploitation and in her sheer love of life--her capacity to live it fully even in the face of deprivation and loss. This is a text that refuses to sever sexuality and work, love and social protest. Daugher of the Hills, in fact, is both a heterosexual love story and a novel of social protest. The combination is curiously rare in American literary history."
--Deborah S. Rosenfelt
MYRA PAGE (1897 - 1994), pseudonym of Dorothy Markey, is the author of three novels: Daughter of the Hills, Gathering Storm, and Moscow Yankee.
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- PublisherPersea Books Inc
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0892550260
- ISBN 13 9780892550265
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages246
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Book Description Trade paperback. Minervini, Louise Painter (Cover illustration by). (illustrator). Published in 1950; New Preface, 1977. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 245p. Audience: General/trade. Out of print for more than 20 years, this biographical novel tells the real story that doesn't change much over the decades: the coal mining life and organized labor conflicts, set in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee. The authentic Dolly Hawkins (later Cooper) voices the days and nights of herself a younger member of coal mining generations, descendents of Daniel Boone era pioneers; she speaks of her life, her loves. She is part of the tradition where women serve as both the spiritual and physical strength for others. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean text pages. Moderate cover and edge wear; spine creasing. Minor corner bumps. 1 0.0. Seller Inventory # Alibris.61410001995
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