9781948814836

Black Diamonds

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9781948814836

Paperback|9781948814836


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A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Award winner

"Young's memoir of her hometown is as powerful a picture as Inness' painting, revealing its harsh transformation a century later."

--BOOKLIST

In 1855, the landscape painter George Inness began work on his commissioned painting The Lackawanna Valley. A century later, a girl in Scranton, Pennsylvania, looks out over her coal-strewn homeland wishing for beauty and wondering where the artist had stood with his canvas. The interplay between the two stories is at the heart of Catherine Young's memoir Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored By Coal. Young invites readers into a world now vanished, but which lingers in shimmering portraits. A lyric work of environmental history, Black Diamonds gives voice to the birthplace of the industrial revolution in North America and the consequences for the people and the forgotten valley that once powered the nation.

ISBN-13

9781948814836

ISBN-10

1948814838

Weight

0.73 Pounds

Dimensions

5.50 x 0.75 x 8.25 In

List Price

$17.95

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

288 pages

Publisher

Torrey House Press

Published On

2023-09-26



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