The book has been translated into many languages, including Japanese and German, and was made into a movie in 1986.[8]
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The story begins in the early 1960s in an isolated mountainous area near the Ohio River, where coal and steel are the major industries. The exact location is never given, for the story takes place in an area cut off from the outside world, where...
The story begins in the early 1960s in an isolated mountainous area near the Ohio River, where coal and steel are the major industries. The exact location is never given, for the story takes place in an area cut off from the outside world, where...
Mayo Cornelius Higgins is a boy on the verge of becoming a teenager. He worries about his family’s safety on the mountain where they live. The coal industry has strip mined their mountain and left sludge behind that is threatening to bring part of...
