The scapegoat
Coal mining
West virginia, fiction
Coal miners
Strikes and lockouts
Coal mines and mining
Fiction, historical
Fiction, historical, general
Large type books
Fiction
In a novel about casual and heedless acts that often lead to unthinkable results, Mary Lee Settle traces the fall of a West Virginia town that was first made rich by coal, then corrupted and destroyed by it. Set in 1912, the story propels readers with astonishing immediacy to a fateful day in a coal…
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