Wilder - Softcover

Clouse, Loletta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971941718 ISBN 13: 9780971941717

Publisher: Chicory Books, 2002

Synopsis

An Epic Tale of Power, Strife, and Romance in the East Tennessee Coalfields of the 1930's

About this title

About the Author:

Loletta Clouse is a librarian with the Knox County Public Library, Knoxville, Tennessee. She grew up on the Cumberland Homesteads.

From Library Journal:

The coal-mining community of Wilder, Tennessee is undergoing difficult times in 1932. Decent, hard-working Lacey Conners is engaged to John Trotter, a quiet man she respects but does not love. Coy Lynn Wilson, a bold "no-account," takes her unawares when he returns to Wilder after a long absence and doggedly begins courting her. Caught between the rather dull John and the flashy Coy, Lacey grapples with her confused feelings while the town experiences a bitter coal miners' strike and a winter without sufficient food or fuel. The vivid imagery in this first novel by a Knoxville, Tennessee librarian pictures life in a Depression-era mining town, a proud people wanting the chance to earn a decent living, and a way of life slowly coming to an end. A decided change of pace.
- Maria A. Perez-Stable, Western Michigan Univ. Libs., Kalamazoo
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chicory Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0971941718
• ISBN 13: 9780971941717
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252