{"product_id":"hawks-nest-9781572332805","title":"Hawk's Nest","description":"\u003cp\u003e Appalachian Echoes \u003cbr\u003e Thomas E. Douglass, series fiction editor \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The building of a tunnel at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, beginning in 1930 has been called the worst industrial disaster in American history: more died there than in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the Sunshine and Farmington mine disasters combined. And when native West Virginian Hubert Skidmore tried to tell the real story in his 1941 novel, Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation apparently convinced publisher Doubleday, Doran \u0026amp; Co. to pull the book from publication after only a few hundred copies had appeared. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Now the Appalachian Echoes series makes \u003ci\u003eHawk's Nest \u003c\/i\u003eavailable to a new generation of readers. This is the riveting tale of starving men and women making their way from all over the Depression-era United States to the hope and promise of jobs and a new life. What they find in West Virginia is \"tunnelitis,\" or silicosis, a disease which killed at least seven hundred workers--probably many more--a large number of them African American, virtually all of them poor. Skidmore's roman ? clef provides a narrative with emotional drive, interwoven with individual stories that capture the hopes and the desperation of the Depression: the Reips who come from the farm with their pots and pans and hard-working children, the immigrants Pete and Anna, kind waitress Lessie Lee, and \"hobos\" Jim Martin, \"Long\" Legg, and Owl Jones, the last of whom, as an African American, receives the worst treatment. This important story of conscience encompasses labor history, Appalachian studies, and literary finesse. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Tennessee Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781572332805\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 6.38w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Issues Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2004 pg. 43\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hubert Skidmore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45331905511605,"sku":"9781572332805","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_90d93cdf-a81e-4810-92cd-448bf52192bd.jpg?v=1745938552","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hawks-nest-9781572332805","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}