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Synopsis
The wife of a Kentucky tenant farmer struggles to improve the quality of her family's harsh life
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Review
Coming of age is a shock to almost anyone's system but imagine being like Kelley's character Judith Pippinger: spirited, creative, strong, yet facing nothing more fulfilling in life than the poverty and deprivation of a rural life. As with any lifetime, the human spirit provides moments of beauty, laughter and power-reserves upon which Judith must depend to survive a failing marriage, a disastrous love affair and the impending death of one of her daughters. The original manuscript contained a scene of rural childbirth deemed too graphic for readers and which was cut before publication. This complete edition includes that restored chapter.
About the Author
Edith Summers Kelley (1884-1956) also wrote short stories, essays, and the novels The Devil's Hand and Weeds.
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- PublisherFeminist Pr
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0935312013
- ISBN 13 9780935312010
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages366
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Cover /edges have light wear. Pages are clean/intact. Seller Inventory # mon0003126240
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Weeds
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Feminist Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1982
ISBN 10: 0935312013
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Near Fine, Pages clean and bright, binding tight. Cover shows minor signs of shelf wear. Same day shping. Seller Inventory # Ix136
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Seller: river break books, Fort benton, MT, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback is clean, square and tightly bound. Two flaws: minor wear to exterior edges and possible sun alteration of spine color; interior text is sharp n fresh with prior owners name scrawled out on front fep. Afterword by Charlotte Goodman. Seller Inventory # 004954
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Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, (1982.), 1982
ISBN 10: 0935312013
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Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
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First thus, a trade paperback. . Reissue of this lost masterpiece of realistic and feminist fiction, originally published in 1923 by Harcourt Brace. The story of Judith Pippinger, a young woman full of life, who is worn down by the monotonous life of drudgery of the small tenant farmer in the tobacco fields of Kentucky, a life Kelley experienced herself. As a young woman, Kelley went to New York where she became secretary to Upton Sinclair and briefly engaged to Sinclair Lewis (who was instrumental in getting this novel published originally), but after her second marriage to Fred Kelley, they left New Jersey and tried farming in Kentucky and later in the Imperial Valley in California. This edition includes an afterword by Charlotte Goodman and it appends a chapter - 'Billy's Birth' - deleted by Harcourt Brace in the original edition. 366 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Seller Inventory # 52736
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