Holding the Line

Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike

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Pub Date 10 Oct 2024 | Archive Date 17 Oct 2024

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Description

From the bestselling author of Demon Copperhead comes a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 – now available for the first time in the UK.

It was the summer of 1983. Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as a scientific writer, spending her weekends cutting her teeth as a freelance journalist when she landed a pivotal assignment. Her mission: to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike.

Over the year that followed, Kingsolver stood with those miners and their families, increasingly engaged and heartbroken. She recorded stories of striking miners and their stunningly courageous wives, sisters and daughters. She saw rights she’d taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about, as they cried out to a wide world that either refused to believe what was happening to them, or didn't care, or simply could not know.

This book is the true story of the families who held the line, and of Kingsolver's commitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered themselves in their fight to keep their families from destitution.

From the bestselling author of Demon Copperhead comes a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 – now available for the first time in the UK.

It was the summer...


Advance Praise

‘Clear and emotional . . . This is a report from the trenches of where the political meets the personal.’ JOHN SAYLES

‘[Kingsolver] means to save us by telling us stories . . . She comes closer than anyone else I know.’ ANN PATCHETT


‘Clear and emotional . . . This is a report from the trenches of where the political meets the personal.’ JOHN SAYLES

‘[Kingsolver] means to save us by telling us stories . . . She comes closer than...


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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9780571392070
PRICE £16.99 (GBP)
PAGES 320

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