Strange as This Weather Has Been
A Novel
$43.59
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
28 September 2007
Summary
A West Virginia family struggles amid the booms and busts of the Appalachian coal industry in this “powerful, sure-footed, and haunting” novel with echoes of John Steinbeck (New York Times Book Review).Set in present day West Virginia, this debut novel tells the story of a coal mining family-a couple and their four children-living through the latest mining boom and dealing with the mountaintop removal and strip mining that is ruining what is left of their hometown. As the mine turns the mount…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781593761660 |
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| ISBN-10: | 159376166X |
| Author: | Ann Pancake |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 476g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Ann Pancake
A native of Romney, West Virginia, Ann Pancake earned a BA in English from West Virginia University, an MA in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Washington. Ann Pancake has lived in Japan, American Samoa, and Thailand, where she taught English as a Second Language. Pancake currently teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Seattle.
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