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• catalog abstract ""John O'Brien was born in Philadelphia, his father having left his beloved home in the West Virginia mountains after an impoverished childhood made all the more painful by family tragedy. Struggling to escape a father defeated by disappointment, displacement, and poverty, John too left home. When John decided to settle near his father's birthplace in West Virginia, he hoped to comprehend the elder O'Brien's attachment to the land, as well as the disabling fatalism he had carried north." "What he discovered is hardly the mythic Appalachia most Americans imagine, but a world of extravagant beauty - lush with green mountains, deep forests, ice-cold trout streams, and small hill farms. The people we meet who inhabit this land are for the most part unpretentious, working class, straightforward, open, commonsensical, and easygoing. They tend to look back more than most Americans do, defining themselves by how they fit into an extended family that includes their ancestors. We are in a mountain culture that feels old and deeply rooted, that follows a traditional way of life. It is a world the author would finally love and call his own." "We also come face-to-face with provincialism, intolerance, and - perhaps Appalachia's defining legacy - the horrors of the coalfields and chemical plants. We see clearly what rapacious greed and exploitation have done for generations to much of the landscape and to the lives of the people. And we learn of the stream of reformers and missionaries, ever ready to show Appalachia the way, whose real contributions tend to be negligible or absurd."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12142980.
• catalog coverage "Appalachian Region, Southern Biography.".
• catalog coverage "Appalachian Region, Southern Social life and customs.".
• catalog coverage "Appalachian Region.".
• catalog coverage "West Virginia Biography.".
• catalog coverage "West Virginia Social life and customs.".
• catalog created "2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
• catalog description ""John O'Brien was born in Philadelphia, his father having left his beloved home in the West Virginia mountains after an impoverished childhood made all the more painful by family tragedy. Struggling to escape a father defeated by disappointment, displacement, and poverty, John too left home. When John decided to settle near his father's birthplace in West Virginia, he hoped to comprehend the elder O'Brien's attachment to the land, as well as the disabling fatalism he had carried north." "What he discovered is hardly the mythic Appalachia most Americans imagine, but a world of extravagant beauty - lush with green mountains, deep forests, ice-cold trout streams, and small hill farms. The people we meet who inhabit this land are for the most part unpretentious, working class, straightforward, open, commonsensical, and easygoing. They tend to look back more than most Americans do, defining themselves by how they fit into an extended family that includes their ancestors. We are in a mountain culture that feels old and deeply rooted, that follows a traditional way of life. It is a world the author would finally love and call his own." "We also come face-to-face with provincialism, intolerance, and - perhaps Appalachia's defining legacy - the horrors of the coalfields and chemical plants. We see clearly what rapacious greed and exploitation have done for generations to much of the landscape and to the lives of the people. And we learn of the stream of reformers and missionaries, ever ready to show Appalachia the way, whose real contributions tend to be negligible or absurd."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-306).".
• catalog description "My Father Takes Me Home -- The O'Briens Go Home Again -- Reentry -- The Heart of Appalachia -- Sunday -- Franklin High -- Fall in the Mountains -- Into the Heart of the Heart of Appalachia -- A Fifth Season -- Woodlands Mountain Institute -- Winter in the Mountains -- Spring and Summer -- Shall We Gather at the River? -- Juan in Appalachia -- Advancing Mountain Culture -- Bringing It All Back Home.".
• catalog extent "ix, 306 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "At home in the heart of Appalachia.".
• catalog identifier "0394564510".
• catalog isFormatOf "At home in the heart of Appalachia.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Knopf,".
• catalog relation "At home in the heart of Appalachia.".
• catalog spatial "Appalachian Region, Southern Biography.".
• catalog spatial "Appalachian Region, Southern Social life and customs.".
• catalog spatial "Appalachian Region.".
• catalog spatial "West Virginia Biography.".
• catalog spatial "West Virginia Social life and customs.".
• catalog subject "Appalachians (People) Social life and customs.".
• catalog subject "CT275.O24 A3 2001".
• catalog subject "O'Brien, John, 1943-".
• catalog subject "O'Brien, John.".
• catalog tableOfContents "My Father Takes Me Home -- The O'Briens Go Home Again -- Reentry -- The Heart of Appalachia -- Sunday -- Franklin High -- Fall in the Mountains -- Into the Heart of the Heart of Appalachia -- A Fifth Season -- Woodlands Mountain Institute -- Winter in the Mountains -- Spring and Summer -- Shall We Gather at the River? -- Juan in Appalachia -- Advancing Mountain Culture -- Bringing It All Back Home.".
• catalog title "At home in the heart of Appalachia / John O'Brien.".
• catalog type "text".