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Clay's quilt / a novel by Silas House.
Van Pelt Library PS3558.O8659 C58 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- House, Silas, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Appalachian Region, Southern--Fiction.
- Appalachian Region, Southern.
- Southern Appalachian Region.
- Coal miners--Fiction.
- Coal miners.
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- Kentucky--Fiction.
- Kentucky.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 292 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001.
- Summary:
- Silas House presents a true-to-life portrait of contemporary Appalachian life. It's the story of Clay Sizemore, orphaned at the age of three, who becomes a coal miner with no family or history to call his own. Pulling on his distant relatives and small community, he manages to fashion a "quilt of life" to draw around himself.
- ISBN:
- 1565123077
- OCLC:
- 45463447
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