| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 177 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; EDITOR'S NOTE; INTRODUCTION; ONE; TWO; THREE; FOUR; FIVE; SIX; SEVEN; EIGHT; NINE; TEN; ELEVEN; TWELVE; THIRTEEN; FOURTEEN; A section of photographs |
| Summary |
Discovered as a typewritten manuscript only after her death in 2006,Family of Earthallows us to see into the young mind of author and Appalachian native Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006), who would become one of the American South's most prolific and storied writers. Focusing on her childhood in Buncombe County, Dykeman reveals a perceptive and sophisticated understanding of human nature, the environment, and social justice. And yet, for her words' remarkable polish, her voice still resonates as raw and vital. Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century life in Asheville, she chronicles the touching, at times harrowing, story of her family's fortunes, plotting their rise and fall in uncertain economic times and ending with her father's sudden death in 1934 when she was fourteen years old. Featuring a new foreword by fellow North Carolinian Robert Morgan, Family of Earthstands as a new major literary work by a groundbreaking author |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 7, 2016) |
| Subject |
Dykeman, Wilma.
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| SUBJECT |
Dykeman, Wilma
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Dykeman, Wilma fast |
| Subject |
Authors, American -- North Carolina -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Authors, American
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North Carolina
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Morgan, Robert, 1944- writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781469629162 |
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146962916X |
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9781469629155 |
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1469629151 |
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