Hawk's Nest
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Appalachian EchoesThomas E. Douglass, series fiction editor Very
real and tremendously moving. . . . Not only an obvious brief for
the unfortunate but a well told and honest story. --New York Times
Hubert Skidmore, a native West Virginian, wrote as a witness from
inside the belly of the beast. His gift is for pitch-perfect
dialogue, a varied cast of characters, and the calling up of
emotion, of anger, fear, dread, and love. To encounter this novel
at last is a sort of resurrection, both for its persecuted author
and the Depression poor whose lives it evokes. --Denise Giardina,
author of The Unquiet Earth and Storming Heaven The building of a
tunnel at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, beginning in 1930 has been
called the worst industrial disaster in American history: more died
there than in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the Sunshine
and Farmington mine disasters combined. And when native West
Virginian Hubert Skidmore tried to tell the real story in his 1941
novel, Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation apparently convinced
publisher Doubleday, Doran & Co. to pull the book from publication
after only a few hundred copies had appeared. Now the Appalachian
Echoes series makes Hawk's Nest available to a new generation of
readers. This is the riveting tale of starving men and women making
their way from all over the Depression-era United States to the
hope and promise of jobs and a new life. What they find in West
Virginia is tunnelitis, or silicosis, a disease which killed at
least seven hundred workers--probably many more--a large number of
them African American, virtually all of them poor. Skidmore's roman
a clef provides a narrative with emotional drive, interwoven with
individual stories that capture the hopes and the desperation of
the Depression: the Reips who come from the farm with their pots
and pans and hard-working children, the immigrants Pete and Anna,
kind waitress Lessie Lee, and hobos Jim Martin, Long Legg, and Owl
Jones, the last of whom, as an African American, receives the worst
treatment. This important story of conscience encompasses labor
history, Appalachian studies, and literary finesse. Hubert Skidmore
(1909-1946) was the author of five other novels: I Will Lift Up
Mine Eyes (1936), Heaven Came So Near (1938), River Rising (1939),
Hill Doctor (1950), and Hill Lawyer (1942). He died in a house fire
at the age of thirty-seven.
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