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"Plant Life is an American classic. Like Our Town or Winesburg, Ohio, it presents a compelling and moving portrait of an entire community. In this case, it is the life of a cotton mill, and three generations of women who work there---whose whole lives have been determined by the mill. Stark, poetic, funny, gritty, and intense, their stories will move you to tears and make you laugh at the same time. Never have the lives of Southern working women been so well documented, their stories so truly told. Plant Life is a mature work of a great compassion and insight.?
?Lee Smith, bestselling author of Fair and Tender Ladies and The Last Girls
"Plant Life is sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always real. Pamela Duncan doesn't just write a great novel--she pours her heart out onto the page, giving a piece of herself to the reader. Here she is exploring the terroritory she knows best: families and friendships and the friends who feel like family. She tells these people's stories with honor and grace but never a hint of sentimentality. This book is full of the hard-earned wisdom of working people, people who dream and love as hard as they work. Plant Life is a beautiful book from a writer who gets to the soul of the matter."
--Silas House, author of Clay's Quilt and A Parchment of Leaves
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"Plant Life is an American classic. Like Our Town or Winesburg, Ohio, it presents a compelling and moving portrait of an entire community. In this case, it is the life of a cotton mill, and three generations of women who work there—whose whole lives have been determined by the mill. Stark, poetic, funny, gritty, and intense, their stories will move you to tears and make you laugh at the same time. Never have the lives of Southern working women been so well documented, their stories so truly told. Plant Life is a mature work of a great compassion and insight.”
—Lee Smith, bestselling author of Fair and Tender Ladies and The Last Girls
"Plant Life is sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always real. Pamela Duncan doesn't just write a great novel—she pours her heart out onto the page, giving a piece of herself to the reader. Here she is exploring the terroritory she knows best: families and friendships and the friends who feel like family. She tells these people's stories with honor and grace but never a hint of sentimentality. This book is full of the hard-earned wisdom of working people, people who dream and love as hard as they work. Plant Life is a beautiful book from a writer who gets to the soul of the matter."
—Silas House, author of Clay's Quilt and A Parchment of Leaves
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"Plant Life is an American classic. Like Our Town or Winesburg, Ohio, it presents a compelling and moving portrait of an entire community. In this case, it is the life of a cotton mill, and three generations of women who work there---whose whole lives have been determined by the mill. Stark, poetic, funny, gritty, and intense, their stories will move you to tears and make you laugh at the same time. Never have the lives of Southern working women been so well documented, their stories so truly told. Plant Life is a mature work of a great compassion and insight.?
?Lee Smith, bestselling author of Fair and Tender Ladies and The Last Girls
"Plant Life is sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always real. Pamela Duncan doesn't just write a great novel--she pours her heart out onto the page, giving a piece of herself to the reader. Here she is exploring the terroritory she knows best: families and friendships and the friends who feel like family. She tells these people's stories with honor and grace but never a hint of sentimentality. This book is full of the hard-earned wisdom of working people, people who dream and love as hard as they work. Plant Life is a beautiful book from a writer who gets to the soul of the matter."
--Silas House, author of Clay's Quilt and A Parchment of Leaves
From the Hardcover edition. -- Review --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Review
"Plant Life is an American classic. Like Our Town or Winesburg, Ohio, it presents a compelling and moving portrait of an entire community. In this case, it is the life of a cotton mill, and three generations of women who work there—whose whole lives have been determined by the mill. Stark, poetic, funny, gritty, and intense, their stories will move you to tears and make you laugh at the same time. Never have the lives of Southern working women been so well documented, their stories so truly told. Plant Life is a mature work of a great compassion and insight.”
—Lee Smith, bestselling author of Fair and Tender Ladies and The Last Girls
"Plant Life is sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always real. Pamela Duncan doesn't just write a great novel—she pours her heart out onto the page, giving a piece of herself to the reader. Here she is exploring the terroritory she knows best: families and friendships and the friends who feel like family. She tells these people's stories with honor and grace but never a hint of sentimentality. This book is full of the hard-earned wisdom of working people, people who dream and love as hard as they work. Plant Life is a beautiful book from a writer who gets to the soul of the matter."
—Silas House, author of Clay's Quilt and A Parchment of Leaves
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Lottie May, Maw Bert, Nellie Belle, Joe Clark, John Dollar, New Year, Grandpa Dill, Las Vegas, Miss Kitty, Revel Mill, Sonny Boy, Santa Claus, Myrtle Beach, North Carolina, Smith River, Bushy Cook, Labor Day, Last Supper, Main Street, They Lord, Christmas Eve, Hap Luckadoo, Jimmie Rodgers, Martha Stewart, Miss Shinn New!
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Lottie May, Maw Bert, Nellie Belle, Joe Clark, John Dollar, New Year, Grandpa Dill, Las Vegas, Miss Kitty, Revel Mill, Sonny Boy, Santa Claus, Myrtle Beach, North Carolina, Smith River, Bushy Cook, Labor Day, Last Supper, Main Street, They Lord, Christmas Eve, Hap Luckadoo, Jimmie Rodgers, Martha Stewart, Miss Shinn New!
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- North Carolina (Celebrate the States) by David Shirley on page 12, and page 16
- Moon Women by Pamela Duncan in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- John Dollar (Wsp Contemporary Classics) by Marianne Wiggins on page 161
- Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall on page 320
- The Black Stallion by Walter Farley on page 147
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- Kweken van bollen in kamer en kas in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rock Garden Design and Construction by North American Rock Garden Society in Back Matter
- The Things I Know Best: A Novel by Lynne Hinton in Front Matter
- Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States: Monocotyledons by Robert K. Godfrey in Back Matter
- Forever Friends: A Novel (Hope Springs) by Lynne Hinton in Front Matter
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