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Buy Holding The Line By Barbara Kingsolver online from Woodbine Books – free delivery in ROI on orders over €50
FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF DEMON COPPERHEAD
FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
FROM THE TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE
‘[Kingsolver] means to save us by telling us stories . . . She comes closer than anyone else I know.’ ANNE PATCHETT
‘A mesmerising account of women finding their voices.’ THE TIMES
‘A jaw-dropping and warm-hearted read.’ WOMAN & HOME
A true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 – now available for the first time in the UK.
In the summer of 1983, Barbara Kingsolver was assigned to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike as a freelance journalist. Over the year that followed, 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, and she was determined to share their voices.
This is the true story of the courageous women and girls who held the line, who discovered themselves in their fight for rights, and of Kingsolver’s commitment to showing the sparks that fly when the flint of force strikes against human mettle.
‘Readers will discover what made Kingsolver the novelist she is now.’ NEW STATESMAN
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The women tell remarkable stories of their lives and actions . . .This book pays powerful tribute to their resolve and passion for economic justice.
Publishers Weekly
Clear and emotional, the story of women who try to get a fair shake in their workplace and realize they can stop at nothing short of control over their entire lives. This is a report from the trenches of where the political meets the personal.
Like Kingsolver's fiction, Holding the Line is a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters-only this time the characters are real.
Journal of the Southwest
[Kingsolver] means to save us by telling us stories. . . She comes closer than anyone else I know. She's able to tell us things we desperately need to know in a way that makes it possible for us to hear it.
Barbara Kingsolver gives a mesmerising account of women finding their voices to fight a mining corporation and defend their husbands' working rights.
The Times
In many ways, Holding the Line is a period piece, but it's fascinating to read today how Kingsolver wrestles with issues that have only gone mainstream in the last few years: namely, intersectional feminism.
Telegraph
A jaw-dropping and warm-hearted read about injustice.
Woman & Home
In Holding the Line readers will discover what made Kingsolver the novelist she is now. They will meet resilient women in the significant, transformative moments of their lives. The strikers lost their battle; but these women discovered new possibilities for themselves.
New Statesman
Holding the Line offers a fascinating insight into recent history, and into the early influences of our greatest living novelists.
Harper’s Bazaar
| Dimensions | 198 × 129 cm |
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