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The Well and the Mine
by Gin Phillips

The Well and the Mine
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Author: Gin Phillips
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-04-08
ISBN: 159448449X
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
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  • ISBN13: 9781594484490
  • Condition: New
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Book Reviews of The Well and the Mine

Book Review: A Sleeper of a Novel, Good, Very Good
Summary: 5 Stars

Fannie Flagg got it right in her introduction: you will miss these characters and this family...And you will fihd yourself thinking of them, over and over again.

Told against the backdrop of a baby being thrown into a well, the story is really about family, a hard scrabble but good family, in the coal mining community of Carbon Hill in Walker County, Alabama. Set in the thirties, it is about family, family values, community and community values--human values. Values that are and must be lived out day-by-day in times and terms that are not always easy. Not a depressing book. It's quite happy actually, much humor in here as there is in life, even in hard times.

The story is good, but the characters and desciptions of the times in which they lived is impeccable. The description of washing and hanging out the family clothes in the days before washing machines and dryers is dead on, as are most of the descriptions in this book.

A very, very good first novel for young Ms. Phillips. Hope she will give us more...

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