Missing Mountains: We Went to the Mountaintop but It Wasn't There - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893239497 ISBN 13: 9781893239494

Verlag: Wind Pubns, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

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Reseña del editor

This book deals with a subject of the gravest importance---the destruction of the Earth. Kentucky's mountains and the creatures who live there are being devastated by the coal-mining technique known as mountaintop removal.

Biografía del autor

Bobbie Ann Mason's first short stories were published in The New Yorker, and were then included in her first book of fiction, Shiloh & Other Stories (1982). The collection won the PEN/ Hemingway Award and was nominated for the American Book Award, the PEN/ Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and she received an Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her first novel, In Country (2001), is taught widely in classes and was made into a film starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd. Both Feather Crowns (1994) and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail (2001) won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. Her memoir, Clear Springs: A Family History (2000), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Mason belongs to the Authors Guild, PEN, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She is former writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky. Her most recent book, The Girl in the Blue Beret, was released in 2011.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wind Pubns
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1893239497
• ISBN 13: 9781893239494
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220
• Herausgeber: Johannsen Kristin, Mason Bobbi Ann, Taylor-Hall Mary Ann