Bøger om West Virginia

Voller Spannung, Kunst und Gefühl erzählt Richard Powers von dem Komponisten und Musikgelehrten Peter Els und seinem Vorhaben, den Grundlagen des Lebens, der DNA, ihre Musik abzulauschen. In sein Labor, in dem er mit Molekülen komponieren will, stolpert die Homeland Security und zwingt ihn zur Flucht. Auf einer Fahrt quer durch die USA erinnert er sein Leben und sucht seine Familie - und versucht, aus dem katastrophalen Zusammenstoß mit den Sicherheitskräften doch etwas zu schaffen, das die Menschen innehalten und auf die Klänge und Töne um sie herum aufmerksam werden lässt.

In unflinching yet hopeful prose, this debut memoir in essays explores the most animal parts of our human nature. Discussions of various creatures in the natural world serve as portals to the painful realities Kirsten Reneau confronts in the process of breaking-and remaking-a home. Honest in their descriptions of sexual assault and its traumatic effects, these essays are at once clinical and lyrical reflections on the ways that desire can permeate our lives for better or worse, as well as how it can be channeled into a lifegiving force for women in a world often hostile to their basic needs. Sensitive Creatures ultimately is a story of darkness, resilience, and the light that still manages to crack through.

Hell's Not Far Off is a grounded, politically engaged study of the Appalachian journalist and political critic Bruce Crawford, a scourge of coal and railway interests. Crawford fought injustices wherever he saw them at major risk to his own life and became an early interpreter of Appalachian labor history. His writings and actions from the 1920s to the 1960s helped shape southwest Virginia and West Virginia. Through Crawford's Weekly, a newspaper active from 1920 to 1935, Crawford challenged the Ku Klux Klan, lynch mobs, and the private police forces of coal barons. The wounds received for these efforts were the closing of his paper and a bullet to his leg during a Harlan County strike in the 1930s. In his work after journalism, he led the West Virginia branch of the Federal Writers' Project during the political standoff over the contents of the state's official guidebook. In Hell's Not Far Off, Josh Howard resurrects strands of a radical tradition centered especially on matters of labor, environment, and race, drawing attention to that tradition's ongoing salience: "Present-day Appalachia's fights were [Crawford's], and his fights are still ours."

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The 2018 West Virginia teachers' strike in the USA exemplifies the changing shape of dissent and protest in the digital age. The use of social media has changed the ways such events develop, offering new tools for organizing, strategizing, generating large numbers of participants, and for communicating crucial information.

Listen to the River recounts the journey of Mary Draper Ingles who was kidnapped by Shawnee warriors in 1755. She escaped captivity and traveled 850 miles through the wilderness to find her way back home.

"En anden tid" af Harold Robbins er en roman om den amerikanske arbejderbevægelse. "Big Dan" kommer fra en fattig arbejderfamilie i Vest Virginias bjerge. Han har en stærk retfærdighedsfølelse og store ambitioner, der gør, at han får arbejdet sig op til at blive en magtfuld arbejdsleder.I romanen følger man Dan og hans søn Daniel, der tidligt gør oprør mod faren, men som senere hen vender tilbage til familiens udgangspunkt i Vest Virginia. idden /title /head body center h1 403 Forbidden /h1 /center /body /htmlHarold Robbins (1916-1997) var en amerikansk romanforfatter. Harold Robbins, der oprindeligt var fra New York, havde en tæt forbindelse til den californiske filmindustri, da flere af hans romaner dannede baggrund for manuskripter til film og tv. Han har en stjerne på Hollywood Walk of Fame og hans bøger blev oversat til 30 sprog og solgt i omegnen af 750 millioner eksemplarer.