Tag Archives: Class struggle
Carolyn Rawls Booth. A Chosen Few. Chapel Hill, NC: Chapel Hill Press, 2008.
A Chosen Few is the third in Carolyn Booth’s trilogy of books that recount the struggles of rural, coastal North Carolinians during the 1920s and 1930s. While the plot revolves around the Ryan and McBride families and their relationships, much … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Bladen, Booth, Carolyn Rawls, Coast, Coastal Plain, Historical, Novels in Series, Onslow, Pender
Sidney C. Tapp. The Struggle. New York: A. Wessels Co., 1906.
It is a stretch to call this a North Carolina novel. Over a hundred pages are set in the boardrooms of Manhattan. The author’s goal is to reveal the way trusts, corporations, and large banks manipulate the commercial and political … Continue reading
Filed under 1900-1909, 1906, Novels to Read Online, Tapp, Sidney C.
Margaret Maron. Hard Row. New York: Warner Books, 2007.
Judge Deborah Knott is adjusting to married life with her new husband, Dwight Bryant, and his young son Cal. There are signs that Colleton County is not doing as well accepting its newcomers–immigrant agricultural workers. When body parts begin to … Continue reading
Charles Price. Freedom’s Altar. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 1999.
Set in the violent, lawless days just after the Civil War, this novel explores the deeply complicated questions about how the South would recover and adjust to new ideas about race and class. Daniel McFee, a former slave who had … Continue reading
Filed under 1990-1999, 1999, Historical, Mountains, Price, Charles
Michael Parker. Hello Down There. New York: Scribners, 1993.
Edwin Keene has become something of a recluse after a tragic car accident in which one of the passengers was killed. The aristocratic Keene, son of a prominent local family, eases the pain of his own injuries with too-frequent doses … Continue reading
Eric Martin. Luck. New York: Norton, 2000.
Mike Olive and several classmates from Duke spend the summer in fictional Cottesville, N.C. alongside Mexican migrant workers on a tobacco farm. The students are working on a project to document the living and working conditions of the workers, and … Continue reading
Filed under 2000, 2000-2009, Martin, Eric
