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Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Robert Gipe brings his Canard County trilogy to a close as his narrator, Dawn, her teen daughter Nicolette, and Dawn's Uncle Hubert get caught up in adventures that reflect an Appalachia that's as much about activism as xenophobia, and is full of caring, creative, and complicated people"--
2) Hazard
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a block of coal the size of a stove shoots out of the wall, miner Amos Blevins barely has time to react before the entire area is flooded with water. He frantically tries to rescue his crewmates, but in an underground space that is pitch black and too cramped to even stand up, he can barely crawl to safety himself. Inspector Will Murphy is sent to investigate, ordered by his superiors to clear things up quickly so the mine can reopen. After all,...
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Trampoline, a debut novel by Robert Gipe, is set in the coalfields of Kentucky. Its narrator is Dawn Jewell, a teenager who recounts the turbulent time when her grandmother Cora led her into a fight to stop a mountaintop removal coal mine. Dawn's father, Delbert, is dead, killed in the mines, leaving her mother, Tricia, a grieving drunk. Trampoline follows Dawn as she decides whether to save a mountain or save herself; be ruled by love or ruled by...
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