Winner of the Southern Book Prize for Fiction An NPR Best Book of 2024 An Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Southern Book of 2024 Co-winner of the 2024 Weatherford Award in Fiction Audie Award for Best Fiction A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 coal miners against mine owners, state militia, and the United States government in the largest labor uprising in American history. Rednecks is a tour de force, big canvas historical novel that dramatizes the 1920 to 1921 events of the West Virginia Mine Wars―from the Matewan Massacre through the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed conflict on American soil since the Civil War, when some one million rounds were fired, bombs were dropped on Appalachia, and the term “redneck” would come to have an unexpected origin story. Brimming with the high stakes drama of America’s buried history,
Vendor
St. Martin's Press
Type
Media
Weight
0.87 lb
Availability
Out of Stock
Dimensions
6.6 x 9.55 x 1.0
Pages
320
Language
English
Target Audience
Adults
Genre
Books, Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Historical, 20th Century
ISBN-10
1250329337
ISBN-13
9781250329332
