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Greenhorn Valley Book Club 2022
Kirkus Reviews: The Best Fiction Books of 2021
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: October 4, 2021
Kirkus Reviews: The Best Fiction Books of 2021
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: October 4, 2021
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 115 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control. Banned at Soviet insistence, it impresses even today with its political complexity, variety of characters and realistic portrayal of daily work in a forbidden zone of the industrial landscape. Sun seekers was banned in 1958 at the urging of the USSR, in part because it is about Soviet-German relations and the mining of uranium to support...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
x, 468 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reveals how, from the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, thousands of African-American men were arrested and forced to work off outrageous fines by serving as unpaid labor to businesses and provincial farmers.
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