Holding the Line

Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike

Barbara Kingsolver

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English

Faber & Faber
15 October 2024

History; Regional & national history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000

From the multi-million copy bestselling author Demon Copperhead: a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first time in the UK.

It was the summer of 1983. Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as a scientific writer spending weekends cutting her teeth as a freelance journalist when she landed an assignment at a constellation of small, strike-gripped mining towns strung out across southern Arizona. Her mission was to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike.

Over the year that followed Kingsolver stood with those miners and their families, increasingly engaged and heartbroken, as they cried out to a wide world that either refused to believe what was happening to them, or didn't care, or simply could not know.

Kingsolver recorded stories of striking miners and their stunningly courageous wives, sisters, daughters. Sometimes visiting them in jail, witnessing the outrageous injustices they suffered. She saw rights she'd taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about.

This book is not precisely about the mine strike of 1983, and not at all about copper. It is the true story of the families who held the line, and of Kingsolver's commitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered themselves in their fight to keep their families from destitution.

Made in Dagenham meets Erin Brockovich, this book is about the sparks that fly when the flint of force strikes against human mettle.FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023

'[Kingsolver] means to save us by telling us stories . . . She comes closer than anyone else I know.' ANN PATCHETT

'Clear and emotional . . . This is a report from the trenches of where the political meets the personal.' JOHN SAYLES

By: Barbara Kingsolver
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Export - Airside ed
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9780571392087
ISBN 10: 0571392083
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 15 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Barbara Kingsolver is the global prize-winning and bestselling author of novels including Demon Copperhead, Unsheltered, Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays and creative non-fiction. Her work of narrative non-fiction is the influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She has won the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.