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OverviewIn the spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the edge of all they had ever been. Now they stood looking down, bitter, angry, afraid. Across the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The century-old hardwood floors still trembled under whirling steel, and people worked on, in a mist of white air. The mill had become almost a living thing, rewarding the hardworking and careful with the best payday they ever had but punishing the careless and clumsy, taking a finger, a hand, or more. The mill was here before the automobile, before the flying machine, and they served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers. So when death did come, no one had to ship a body home on a train. This is a mill story-not of bricks, steel, and cotton-but of the people who suffered in it to live. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rick Bragg , Mr Rick BraggPublisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Imprint: Blackstone Audiobooks Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 16.50cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781441707826ISBN 10: 1441707824 Publication Date: 01 October 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsStories worth hearing and knowing...[Bragg] grew up among the mill hands he writes about and, while he doesn't distinguish the different characters as an actor would and doesn't always make clear where quotations begin and end, he does bring them lovingly to life. -- AudioFile "Stories worth hearing and knowing...[Bragg] grew up among the mill hands he writes about and, while he doesn't distinguish the different characters as an actor would and doesn't always make clear where quotations begin and end, he does bring them lovingly to life. -- ""AudioFile""" Author InformationRick Bragg is the author of several New York Times bestselling books. As a feature writer for the New York Times, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his elegantly written stories about contemporary America. He divides his time between New Orleans and his native Alabama. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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