The last ballad
Record details
- ISBN: 0062313118
- ISBN: 9780062313119
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Physical Description:
378 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]
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Subject: | Labor union members United States 20th century Fiction Textile workers Labor unions Fiction Textile workers United States 20th century Fiction Working mothers Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 37 of 39 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
- 4 of 5 copies available at Scenic Regional. (Show)
Holds
- 1 current hold with 39 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Scenic Regional-Owensville | FIC CAS (Text) | 3006008391 | Fiction | Available | - |
Scenic Regional-Pacific | FIC CAS (Text) | 3006008421 | Fiction | Available | - |
Scenic Regional-Union | FIC CAS (Text) | 3006008405 | Fiction | Checked out | 04/03/2024 |
Scenic Regional-Warrenton | FIC CAS (Text) | 3006008413 | Fiction | Available | - |
Scenic Regional-Wright City | FIC CAS (Text) | 3006244119 | Fiction | Available | - |
Barry Lawrence - Cassville Library | FIC CAS (Text) | 37884102781691 | Fiction | Available | - |
Barry Lawrence - Monett Library | FIC CAS (Text) | 37884102781923 | Fiction | Available | - |
Barry Lawrence - Mt. Vernon Library | FIC CAS (Text) | 37884102781915 | Fiction | Available | - |
Bowling Green Public Library | Fic Cas (Text) | 35030000017103 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Camden County Library District - Osage Beach | FIC CASH (Text) | 31320003605073 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Summary:
"The eagerly awaited next novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling A Land More Kind Than Home about a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together in the years before the Great Depression, a haunting and moving story of cowardice, courage and sacrifice"--
Ella May Wiggins, a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together with the paltry nine dollars a week she earns from the textile mill two miles away, makes up her mind to join the labor union--a decision that will have lasting consequences for her children, her friends, her town, and all that she loves. Intertwining myriad voice, Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the now forgotten struggle of the labor movement in early twentieth-century America--and pays tribute to the thousands of heroic women and men who risked their lives to win basic rights for all workers"--
Ella May Wiggins, a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together with the paltry nine dollars a week she earns from the textile mill two miles away, makes up her mind to join the labor union--a decision that will have lasting consequences for her children, her friends, her town, and all that she loves. Intertwining myriad voice, Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the now forgotten struggle of the labor movement in early twentieth-century America--and pays tribute to the thousands of heroic women and men who risked their lives to win basic rights for all workers"--