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Everything in Its Path

Everything in Its Path Paperback - 1978

by Erikson, Kai T

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Simon & Schuster, 1978. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Everything in Its Path
  • Author Erikson, Kai T
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Date 1978
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0671240676I3N10
  • ISBN 9780671240677 / 0671240676
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.42 x 5.33 x 0.72 in (21.39 x 13.54 x 1.83 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 76026462
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363

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Summary

The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood. On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled muddy water burst through a makeshift mining-company dam and roared through Buffalo Creek, a narrow mountain hollow in West Virginia. Following the flood, survivors from a previously tightly knit community were crowded into trailer homes with no concern for former neighborhoods. The result was a collective trauma that lasted longer than the individual traumas caused by the original disaster. Making extensive use of the words of the people themselves, Erikson details the conflicting tensions of mountain life in general—the tensions between individualism and dependency, self-assertion and resignation, self-centeredness and group orientation—and examines the loss of connection, disorientation, declining morality, rise in crime, rise in out-migration, etc., that resulted from the sudden loss of neighborhood.

First line

LOGAN COUNTY, West Virginia, lies on the western flank of the Appalachians.

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