Moon's Black Gold

Peake, R H

ISBN 10: 1953150268 / ISBN 13: 9781953150264

Published by Lettra Press LLC, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Moon's Black Gold
• Publisher: Lettra Press LLC
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1953150268
• ISBN 13: 9781953150264
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Everett "Moon" Lunamin returns from battles in Vietnam determined to gain wealth and social status mining coal during the coal boom of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Moon struggles with his cousin George Landsetter, a reclamation officer, and surface mining competitors whose greed exceeds their ethics. He succeeds and marries his high school sweetheart, whose family accepts him because he is now wealthy. Moon becomes unhappy that his wife Susan enjoys his money but is unhappy with his efforts to obtain it. They both neglect their son and seek companionship outside their marriage, but Susan refuses divorce to keep her lifestyle. Moon returns from a trip to Africa with his lover and finds Susan murdered with his shotgun. Beset by the IRS, an ambitious prosecutor, and several jealous cousins, Moon struggles to save his business and his life.

About the Author

Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, Peake has lived and taught in the coalfields of Southwest Virginia for over forty years. He lived through the coal boom of the late 1960s and early 1970s and worked for sensible reclamation laws. He experienced phone calls at early hours in the morning with deep breathing and curses, but he sympathized with mountain people's desire to gain some wealth from their coal, wealth that in earlier years went to Philadelphia, New York, and England. An amateur ornithologist, he has published Birds of the Virginia Cumberlands, several collections of poetry, and an academic satire, Jack, Be Nimble.