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Trampoline : an illustrated novel /

"Trampoline, a debut novel by Robert Gipe, is set in the coalfields of Kentucky. Its narrator is Dawn Jewell, a teenager who recounts the turbulent time when her grandmother Cora led her into a fight to stop a mountaintop removal coal mine. Dawn's father, Delbert, is dead, killed in the mi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gipe, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Trampoline, a debut novel by Robert Gipe, is set in the coalfields of Kentucky. Its narrator is Dawn Jewell, a teenager who recounts the turbulent time when her grandmother Cora led her into a fight to stop a mountaintop removal coal mine. Dawn's father, Delbert, is dead, killed in the mines, leaving her mother, Tricia, a grieving drunk. Trampoline follows Dawn as she decides whether to save a mountain or save herself; be ruled by love or ruled by anger; remain in the land of her birth or run for her life. Trampoline includes more than two hundred drawings that punctuate the narrative in a unique, dramatic, and moving way and amplify Dawn's telling of her story"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:9780821445242
0821445243