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The Quarry
Contributor(s): Walker, Mildred (Author), Hugo, Ripley (Introduction by)

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ISBN: 0803297793     ISBN-13: 9780803297791
Publisher: Bison Books
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: August 1995
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Annotation: In this family saga, generations mine the Vermont earth and come to rest in it. Lyman Converse is too young to fight in the Civil War, but he lives to see his own son enlist in World War I. Through all the years his closest friend is Easy, an escaped black slave who took refuge in his father's house. Everything Converse values most is gradually lost to time, including the family-owned soapstone quarry. The Quarry invites readers to escape into private lives worth caring about - and to feel the national history that they could not escape.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 95016578
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.29" W x 7.95" L (0.88 lbs) 341 pages
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Library Journal 12/01/1995 pg. 165
 
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In this family saga, generations mine the Vermont earth and come to rest in it. Lyman Converse is too young to fight in the Civil War, but he lives to see his own son enlist in World War I. Through all the years his closest friend is Easy, an escaped black slave who took refuge in his father's house. Everything Converse values most is gradually lost to time, including the family-owned soapstone quarry. The Quarry invites readers to escape into private lives worth caring about-and to feel the national history that they could not escape. Originally published in 1947 and considered one of Mildred Walker's richest novels, The Quarry is introduced by Ripley Hugo, Walker's daughter. Hugo edited, with James Welch, The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography by Richard Hugo.
 
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