"Ann Pancake’s 2007 novel Strange As This Weather Has Been exposed the devastating fallout of mountaintop removal mining on a single West Virginia family. In Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley, a follow-up collection of eleven astonishing novellas and short stories, Pancake again features characters who are intensely connected to their land--sometimes through love, sometimes through hate--and who experience brokenness and loss, redemp ..."
Strange as This Weather Has Been(1st Edition) A Novel by AnnPancake Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2007 by Shoemaker & Hoard ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-166-0, ISBN: 1-59376-166-X
"Set in present day West Virginia, Ann Pancake’s debut novel, Strange As This Weather Has Been, tells the story of a coal mining familya couple and their four childrenliving through the latest mining boom and dealing with the mountaintop removal and strip mining that is ruining what is left of their mountain life. As the mine turns the mountains to slag and wastewater, workers struggle with layoffs and children find adventure in the bl ..."
"Ann Pancake’s 2007 novel Strange As This Weather Has Been exposed the devastating fallout of mountaintop removal mining on a single West Virginia family. In Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley, a follow-up collection of eleven astonishing novellas and short stories, Pancake again features characters who are intensely connected to their land--sometimes through love, sometimes through hate--and who experience brokenness and loss, redemp ..."
Given Ground(1st Edition) (Bakeless Prize) by AnnPancake, Lynne Zacek Bassett Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2008 by Middlebury ISBN-13: 978-1-58465-746-0, ISBN: 1-58465-746-4
"Departing from Appalachia's 150-year-old literary legacy of formula and caricature, West Virginia native Ann Pancake uses the texture of language, an intense attention to place, and complexity of characterization to recreate the region -- its tragic history and fragile culture, the interior landscapes of its people, and their deep rootedness in a threatened land. Her characters, already marginalized economically and socially, confront w ..."
Given Ground(1st Edition) (Bakeless Prize) by AnnPancake Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 2001 by Upne ISBN-13: 978-1-58465-118-5, ISBN: 1-58465-118-0
"Departing from Appalachia's 150-year-old literary legacy of formula and caricature, West Virginia native Ann Pancake uses the texture of language, an intense attention to place, and complexity of characterization to recreate the region -- its tragic history and fragile culture, the interior landscapes of its people, and their deep rootedness in a threatened land. Her characters, already marginalized economically and socially, confront w ..."
"Throw up my face to make sure no brothers or sisters saw, but they're still
shrieking in the haymow, and only Mickey, the biggest and wisest dog, watches
me. I tuck my mouseskull in my jacket pocket, stoop-run to a manger, and wiggle
in."
"It's been all mined out underneath, I knew that, but I didn't know how far they'd got
with the stripping. I decided to go up and see. I got over there, and of course they
had a pipe gate across where you used to be able to drive up, so I parked my ..."
This Impermanent Earth Environmental Writing from The Georgia Review (Georgia Review Books Series) by Douglas Carlson Paperback, 426 Pages, Published 2021 by University Of Georgia Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-6027-0, ISBN: 0-8203-6027-9