{"product_id":"none-buth-the-living-9780998107103","title":"None Buth The Living","description":"\u003cp\u003eEzra Burke, like his tenant-farmer father before him, struggles to eke out a living\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom a rented plot of depleted, rocky soil in his beloved Blue Ridge Mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith crops destroyed by a freakish summer storm and hopelessly in debt, he is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eforced into the employ of the wicked and cunning landowner. When further tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estrikes, Ezra, still a young, but now a desperate man, hears of work down in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCorinth-the cotton mills are hiring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith his wife Judith-half Cherokee and who alone bears the burden of a dark and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eterrible secret-and two small children, Ezra leaves the mountains for a new life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein Corinth where he has found work at the mammoth Galway Mill. An honest and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eindependent man, he is ill-prepared for the intrigues, politics, and greed of mill life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the industrial city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the dream of someday returning to the mountains slowly, but inevitability fades, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe hardships and injustices imposed on the workers by the wealthy mill owners\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebecome untenable. When union organizers from the North arrive in Corinth, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esituation intensifies and finally reaches a boiling point. Threatened, manipulated, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand ostracized, Ezra is faced with a choice-one that could cost him everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the backdrop of a recovering South still showing scars of Reconstruction, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enow stifled by the Great Depression, simmering but unspoken racial tensions, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunscrupulous mill owners, None but the Living explores the struggles and pathos of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edisplaced people trying to maintain their identity and values in a world new and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estrange to them-a world of subterfuge, of haves and have-nots, of conformity, of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einjustice. Such is the saga of the Burke family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Phenix Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780998107103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.60w x 0.70d","brand":"Kenneth P. Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44589874249909,"sku":"9780998107103","price":12.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e9ff065a-0880-4ce6-99a1-95736f1f0acc.jpg?v=1724733829","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/none-buth-the-living-9780998107103","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}