![]() ![]() ![]() “A collection of Zen-like moments of self-discovery and serenity . . . “A brilliant contribution to the growing collection of Appalachian literature that tells the story as honestly and purely as life in the mountains has always been and always will be.” - Teenreads Rupe secures work as coal miner in West Virginia and they move to start their lives together. She marries Rupe when he’s 15, because he’s tall and kind. All from 1.45 New from 42.50 Used from 1.45 All Copies ( 12 ) Hardcover ( 12 ) Choose Edition ( 1 ) Book Details Seller Sort of 1 Books by Cynthia Rylant Dog Heaven Starting at 0. This is the story of one woman’s experiences in a hardscrabble coal-mining town, a story that brims with universal themes about life, love, and family-and all of the joy, laughter, heartache, and loss that accompany them. A novel-in-verse, this traces Ludie’s life from her birth in Alabama in 1910, until she dies at age 95 in West Virginia. West Virginia Poor women Newbery medalist Cynthia Rylant returns to her home state of West Virginia with this evocative collection of poems. In a heartbreaking narrative that flows like a novel, we follow Ludie from childhood to falling in love and getting married, through the birth of her own children, and on into old age. In “luminous moments told in lovely language,” the poems of the Newbery Medal–winning author of Boris bring a rural woman to vivid life ( School Library Journal).Ĭynthia Rylant returns to her home state of West Virginia with this powerful and evocative collection of poems. ![]()
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