The Unquiet Earth by Denise Giardina5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Uncle Brigham responds by pursuing death by drink, reasoning that "hit aint as final as a bullet and tastes better than rat poison." Others, like Hassel Day - who has read through an entire set of the World Book Encyclopedia at the library and who takes an extra radiator along in his car trunk when he goes on a trip - are more stubborn. Miners are marched to work at gunpoint by coal operators backed up by court injunctions, and folks in the mountains of Giardina's fictional Justice County are still being thrown out of their houses, pushed off their property - even the bones of the dead are torn from their graves, as cemeteries and homeplaces are obliterated by the new strip mines. $22.95ĪLONG THE West Virginia creeks where coal miner Rondal Lloyd once fought to win recognition for the UMW in Denise Giardina's 1987 novel, Storming Heaven, his son Dillon now fights union officials who want to abandon their own members.īut some things never change. THE UNQUIET EARTH By Denise Giardina Norton. ![]()
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