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James Still

Sporty Creek

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Hard times during the Depression and family sacrifices are treated with honesty and humor in this YA book by the author of River of Earth (School Library Journal).Sporty Creek is a series of short stories set in the Kentucky hills. Narrated by a young boy (a cousin of the narrator of Still's classic novel River of Earth), the book tells the story of his family during the Great Depression. With work in the coal mines sporadic, they move from place to place, trying to earn a living the best they can. The story is told with gentleness and humor.What James Still has done is to look at the people of the mountains and just a 'bunch of houses in a h… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8131-4630-0
  • EAN: 9780813146300
  • Produktnummer: 36819258
  • Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 128 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 0 KB

Über den Autor


Since the early 1930s, James Still made his home in eastern Kentucky, living in an ancient log cabin on Dead Mare Branch and supporting himself by farming, teaching, and serving as librarian for the Hindman Settlement School. He is the author of several works of fiction, among them River of Earth, The Run for the Elbertas, An Appalachian Mother Goose, and of the collection of poems, From the Mountain, From the Valley.

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