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Son of a West Virginia Coal Miner by George Hughes (2010, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAuthorhouse
ISBN-101452055319
ISBN-139781452055312
eBay Product ID (ePID)99640576
Product Key Features
Book TitleSon of a West Virginia Coal Miner
Number of Pages184 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
TopicMining, Inspirational, General
GenreReligion, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorGeorge Hughes
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Weight1.9 Oz
Item Length0.3 in
Item Width0.2 in
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SynopsisBorn in 1938 at the tail end of the great depression in a small coal mining village in West Virginia, he tells how his parents struggled to provide for the family. His father, was a coal miner for forty years and his mother a house maid for the local doctor. How he and his seven siblings only had one pair of shoes each, during spring and summer they had to put them away so that they would not wear them out for the next school term. So during this time they went around playing in their bare feet. At the age of seven he disliked going to school. There were many school days he did not show up for class, because of his profound fantasy for being in the woods alone, contented with the sounds of mother nature, he would sit and dream. At fourteen, in 1953, the family with their meager possessions, moved north to a city in Ohio and within five years was the beginning trends of him becoming an alcoholic.
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- 27 Jan, 2023
Son Of A West Virginia Coal Miner by George Huges
I have not yet finished this book, but I find the writing quite appealing.. My Mother and her siblings lived in a coal mining town., in West Virginia. She was very young, when she left that area.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
