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40 Acres and No Mule

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40 Acres and No Mule

In the late 1940s, Janice and Henry Giles moved from Louisville, Kentucky, back to the Appalachian hill country where Henry had grown up and where his family had lived since the time of the Revolution. With their savings, the couple bought a ramshackle house and forty acres of land on a ridge top and set out to be farmers like Henry's forebears.

To this personal account of the trials of a city woman trying to learn the ways of the country and of her neighbors, Janice Holt Giles brings the same warmth, humor, and powers of observation that characterize her novels. Enlightening and evocative, personal and universally pertinent, this description of a year of "backaches, fun, low ebbs, and high tides, and above all a year of eminent satisfaction" will be welcomed by Janice Holt Giles's many readers, old and new.

Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.

Country	USA
Author	Janice Holt Giles
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Giles, Janice Holt
EAN	9780813108094
Edition	Reprint
ISBN	0813108098
Label	University Press of Kentucky
Manufacturer	University Press of Kentucky
MPN	9780813108094
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	248
PartNumber	9780813108094
PublicationDate	1992-09-15
Publisher	University Press of Kentucky
Studio	University Press of Kentucky
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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