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Synopsis
They all bear witness to nearly forgotten events of history, culminating in the final, tragic Battle of Blair Mountain--when the United States Army greeted ten thousand unemployed pro-union miners with airplanes, bombs, and poison gas. It was the first crucial battle of a war that has yet to be won.
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Review
"Brilliant diamond-hard fiction, heartwrenching, tough and tender."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"THIS IS THE GRIPPING STORY OF A REAL CONFLICT. . . . Denise Giardina tells the miners' stirring story with a fierceness and passion. This is a fine, moving book."
--ANNIE DILLARD
"If we are very lucky, every few years there arrives a novel that is so moving, so instantly successful . . . that it towers high over much else that is being published. Storming Heaven is that novel."
--The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"An excellent book, full of fine observations and vivid characters . . . Giardina is a gifted writer."
--Chicago Tribune
About the Author
Denise Giardina is the author of Storming Heaven, Emily's Ghost, and Saints and Villains, which won the Boston Book Review Prize. She is an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church and lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Co.
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0393024407
- ISBN 13 9780393024401
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages312
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