The Enduring Hills (Piney Ridge #1)
by Giles, Janice Holt (1905-1979)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine-Collectible/Good
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. 2nd Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Near Fine-Collectible/Good. SECOND PRINTING. 5.75"x8.5" 256 numbered pages. Black cloth boards w/yellow embossed letters on front and spine. Author photo by Charles Holbert. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (price), & unmarked. DJ has moisture exposure w/ink marks but intact. Stain on right edge. Secure ship w/track #. Originally published in 1950, The Enduring Hills was Janice Holt Giles's first novel. It is based in part on her own courtship and introduction to the Kentucky mountain country. Here, Giles introduces Hod and Mary Pierce and begins her Appalachian trilogy. Hod Pierce, a boy not unlike Henry Giles, who grows up on Piney Ridge, where generations of Pierces have made a living from the stubborn soil. Hod loves his people and the land but longs also for wider horizons, for more education, and for the freedom he imagines can be found in the outside world. It takes World War II to carry Hod away from the Ridge and out into the great world, and it is a long time before he comes back. After the war is over, Hod settles into marriage and a factory job in the city. Finally it is Mary, his city-bred wife, who sees at last that to Hod, Piney Ridge will always be home. In her preface to the second edition, Mrs. Giles wrote, "I believe [the story] is timeless and as the hands of the clock have turned and turned, people are turning back to the earth, knowing now that saving this earth is the most important work in the world, that we must all become, as Hod and Mary Pierce did, a man and woman with faith in the earth." Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life. Source: Publisher.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16359
- Title
- The Enduring Hills (Piney Ridge #1)
- Author
- Giles, Janice Holt (1905-1979)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine-Collectible
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1971
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