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"Based on recorded interviews with three different women in different parts of Appalachia, Thomas Burton's carefully crafted oral history lends a timely ear to the lives of three contemporary Appalachian women recounted in their own words. Essentialist stereotypes and misplaced debates about Appalachian character are never far from any study of this region's people-and seem closer still in the wake of J. D. Vance's bestselling Hillbilly Elegy-but as readers will find here, individuals who dwell in the region have stories of their own to tell, each one differing from the other, insisting on a fresh hearing"--…mehr

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"Based on recorded interviews with three different women in different parts of Appalachia, Thomas Burton's carefully crafted oral history lends a timely ear to the lives of three contemporary Appalachian women recounted in their own words. Essentialist stereotypes and misplaced debates about Appalachian character are never far from any study of this region's people-and seem closer still in the wake of J. D. Vance's bestselling Hillbilly Elegy-but as readers will find here, individuals who dwell in the region have stories of their own to tell, each one differing from the other, insisting on a fresh hearing"--
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THOMAS G. BURTON is professor emeritus of English at East Tennessee State University. He has produced three documentaries on serpent handling and is author of Serpent-Handling Believers, The Serpent and the Spirit: Glenn Summerford's Story, and Beech Mountain Man: The Memoirs of Ronda Lee Hicks.