HOLDING THE LINE - BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Libro

Editorial	Faber & Faber
Edad	Adultos
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Autor	KINGSOLVER BARBARA
ISBN	9780571392094
Peso ( kg )	0,2
Tipo	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2025
Formato	Tapa rustica
Sinopsis	HOLDING THE LINE - WOMEN IN THE GREAT ARIZONA MINE STRIKE From Barbara Kingslover, the winner of the Pulitzer and Women's Prize for Fiction 2023, and multi-million copy bestselling author Demon Copperhead: a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first time in the UK. ' Kingsolver means to save us by telling us stories... She comes closer than anyone else I know.' ANNE PATCHETT Clear and emotional... This is a report from the trenches of where the political meets the personal.' JOHN SAYLES It was the summer of 1983. Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as a scientific writer spends her weekends cutting her teeth as a freelance journalist when she landed an assignment. Her mission: what to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike. Over the year that followed Kingsolver stood with those miners and their families, increasingly engaged and heartbroken. She recorded stories of striking miners and their stunningly courageous wives, sisters and daughters. She saw rights she'd taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about, as they cried out to a wide world that either refused to believe what was happening to them, or didn't care, or simply could not know. This book is the true story of the families who held the line, and of Kingsolver's commitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered themselves in their fight to keep their families from destitution. It is a story about the sparks that fly when the flint of force strikes against human mettle. Edad recomendada: Adultos. KINGSOLVER BARBARA Barbara Kingsolver nació el 8 de abril de 1955 en Annapolis, Maryland, Estados Unidos, y creció en Kentucky. Estudió piano en la Universidad DePauw, pero cambió su enfoque a la biología, graduándose en 1977. Luego obtuvo una maestría en ecología y biología evolutiva en la Universidad de Arizona. Es novelista, ensayista y poeta, conocida por abordar temas como justicia social, medio ambiente y resiliencia humana. Su primera novela, "The Bean Trees" 1988 , fue seguida por obras como "Animal Dreams", "Pigs in Heaven", "The Poisonwood Bible", "Prodigal Summer", "The Lacuna", "Flight Behavior", "Unsheltered" y "Demon Copperhead", esta última ganadora del Premio Pulitzer en 2023. También escribió ensayos como "Small Wonder" y el libro de no ficción "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle". Fundó el Bellwether Prize para promover la literatura de cambio social y ha sido galardonada con múltiples premios, incluyendo el National Humanities Medal y el Women's Prize for Fiction.
Cantidad de páginas	320
Fecha Ingreso	01-01-0001