About this title: Interpreting Appalachia, Garry Barker observes, is a task that has too often fallen to outsiders, whether government missionaries, learned experts, or sensation mongers. Not surprisingly, he suggests, their accounts of the region have usually missed the essentials: "the subtle humor, quiet pain, intense pride, and bridled passion that are part of ...
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Edition: 1st ed.
Binding: Trade pb
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville
Date Published: c1995
ISBN-13:9780870499005ISBN:0870499009
Description: Very Good. No dust jacket, as issued. slight edge wear, p/o inscription inside cover, otherwise clean and tight copy. Unknown printing. (pbk. : alk. paper) p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Notes from a native son--Your turn: the courier-journal essays--A generation of In-betweeners--Slings and arrows--Appalachian voices--Stranger than truth--I still love to mow--Working--Writing about the crafts--Romancing the crafts--Humor is as humor does--Head of the holler--Many hands ... read more
Description: Good. 1995-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville TN
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780870499005ISBN:0870499009
Description: Ex-lib-Good. 5.75 x 8.75. Ex-library copy with usual markings, soft cover rebound as hard cover for library use, minor wear, binding tight, xii + 204 pages including notes and bibliography, collection of essays on growing up in Appalachian Kentucky and life of ordinary people there, not illustrated. read more
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