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1) Postcards
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English
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E. Annie Proulx's first novel, Postcards, winner of the 1993 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, tells the mesmerizing tale of Loyal Blood, who misspends a lifetime running from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman.
Blood's odyssey begins in 1944 and takes him across the country from his hardscrabble Vermont hill farm to New York, across Ohio, Minnesota, and Montana to British Columbia, on to North Dakota, Wyoming,...
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Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern U.S. from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. Country people from New England to North Dakota negotiated the ride of large-scale organizational society and consumer culture in ways marked by both resistance and accommodation, change, and continuity.
Publisher
H.N. Abrams in association with the Library of Congress
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The photographs of the FSA, which recorded American life in the late 1930s and early 1940s, remain among the most moving and famous documentary images from the first half of the 20th century. Yet few people know that, along with thousands and thousands of black-and-white photographs, the FSA photographers also took color pictures.
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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"There's no such thing as rural America. Or, rather, as Steven Conn argues, "rural America" is a phrase that has been made to mean so many things that it doesn't mean anything. In fact, he maintains, rural America--so often characterized as in crisis or in danger of being left behind--has been shaped by the same major forces as the rest of the country since at least the end of the Civil War: militarization, industrialization, corporatization, and...
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"For most of America's history, rural people and culture have been casually mocked, stereotyped, and, in general, deeply misunderstood. Now an array of short stories, poetry, graphic short stories, and personal essays, along with anecdotes from the authors' real lives, dives deep into the complexity and diversity of rural America and the people who call it home. Fifteen extraordinary authors--diverse in ethnic background, sexual orientation, geographic...
Series
Forum volume 9
Publisher
Boston Review
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
""Rural spaces," writes Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, "are often thought of as places absent of things, from people of color to modern amenities to radical politics. The truth, as usual, is more complicated." With activists, historians, and political scientists as guides, Left Elsewhere explores the radical politics of rural America--its past, its priorities, and its moral commitments--that mainstream progressives...
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