Sentences with phrase «remote mill town»
The Truth According to Us By Annie Barrows Dial • $ 16 • ISBN 9780385342957 The co-author of the book club favorite The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society sets her latest book in Depression - era West Virginia, where a young socialite finds herself tasked with writing a history of a remote mill town.
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It, too, began with a journey: this one when we were just twenty - one, to interview for teaching jobs in the remote mill town of Orleans, in the northern Green Mountains just south of the Canadian border, where we planned to teach for a year or two, save some money, and then move on to graduate school.
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Finally his family discovers him in a remote Louisiana mill town, promptly buys the property, and puts Randolph in charge of this place unlike any he has ever seen, where men are surrounded by cypress swamps and menace, leading lives of ceaseless, backbreaking toil punctuated only by the brutal entertainments provided by the Sicilians who control the whiskey and card games and girls, and by the rough justice meted out by the still - tormented Byron.