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Author : Dianne Watkins Stuart
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813129556
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life written by Dianne Watkins Stuart and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813157781
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Act of Contrition written by Janice Holt Giles and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Act of Contrition focuses on the intimate relationship between Regina, a widow, and Michael, a young doctor whose wife left him for another man. Having found happiness in one another, they desire nothing more than to be together. Yet in the eyes of the Catholic Church, Michael is not free to divorce his wife and marry Regina. In an emotional climax Regina must decide if she loves Michael enough to give him up or if she'll force him to choose between her and God. By modern standards, Giles's love scenes are tasteful, and the general atmosphere of ecumenism within today's Catholic Church renders moot many of the tensions in the novel. Yet in 1957 Giles's agent and publisher feared the work would cause "irreparable harm" to her reputation. As late as 1972 Giles was revising in the hopes of seeing the novel published. Finally her wish is fulfilled. Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.
Author : Dianne W. Stuart
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184541
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Janice Holt Giles written by Dianne W. Stuart and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946, at the age of 41, Janice Holt Giles wrote her first novel. Although it took her only three months to complete the first draft, working at night so as not to conflict with her secretarial job, it was another four years before The Enduring Hills was published. Three years later, when her sixth novel appeared, Janice Holt Giles's works had accumulated sales of nearly two million copies. Between 1950 and 1975 she wrote twenty-four books, most of which were bestsellers, regularly reviewed in the New York Times, and selected for inclusion in popular book clubs. Her picture held pride of place in her literary agent's New York office, alongside those of Willa Cather, H.G. Wells, and Edith Wharton, yet until now there has been no biography of this immensely popular American writer. Humbly professing to be "just a good storyteller," Giles was a keen observer of life with great sensitivity, an ear for language, and a superb imagination. Her artistic achievements become even more remarkable when placed in the context of her often difficult personal struggles. Dianne Watkins Stuart, for years the acknowledged expert on Giles's work, has traced the path of her unique life. Stuart walked around the small house where Giles's brother was born and The Kinta Years (1973) had its origin, wandered through the yard where The Plum Thicket (1954) grew, and made countless trips to Adair County, Kentucky, to trace the trails of the Piney Ridge trilogy (The Enduring Hills, Miss Willie, Tara's Healing) and seek out the day-to-day life of her later years. Stuart's long-anticipated biography provides both a narrative of Giles's life and an in-depth description of the art and commerce of American publishing in the middle years of the century.
Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813190235
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Shady Grove written by Janice Holt Giles and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2002-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broke Neck, Kentucky, lies deep in Appalachia. Its people are descendents of the men and women who settled the country during the Revolutionary War, and their ways have not changed much in the past two hundred years. Shady Grove chronicles the riotous adventures and misadventures of Broke Neck's Fowler clan, among them Frony, the feisty and articulate widow who narrates the tale, and Sudley, the thrice-married farmer and quintessential "ridge man." Sudley, who wields considerable political influence among his kin and community, isn't happy when a new preacher from "outside" comes in from his city-based denomination with ideas about what's wrong in Broke Neck. What follows is a compelling example of the tension between urban viewpoints and rural traditions, a central conflict in Appalachia. The town's delicate balance is disturbed when other outsiders -- federal revenue officials and four suitors responding to a personal ad -- converge in an unlikely climax that is both comic and telling. In her last book of fiction about her adopted Kentucky homeland, Janice Holt Giles cleverly dispels the common stereotypes of rural peoples by creating honest, believable characters who cherish their soil, churches, songs, and lines of kin. Shady Grove is a novel that makes us laugh and touches our hearts. Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.
Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813128436
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Run Me a River written by Janice Holt Giles and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1964 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of a young steamboat captain and his passengers on the Green River, Kentucky, when Confederate and Union armies were beginning to clash.
Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Plum Thicket written by Janice Holt Giles and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katie's glorious summer at her grandparents' rambling home ends in tragedy when violence wrecks the three-day family reunion.
Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780395140994
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Tara's Healing written by Janice Holt Giles and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disilusioned doctor comes to Piney Ridge and learns of the healing power of kindness.
Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813108315
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Miss Willie written by Janice Holt Giles and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Willie, first published in 1951, is the second novel in Janice Holt Giles's Piney Ridge trilogy, which includes also The Enduring Hills and Tara's Healing. Although the plot is fictional, the central character is based on Giles's mother and some of the episodes are drawn from her life. This is the story of a dedicated teacher who moves to the hills of Kentucky to teach in a one-room schoolhouse at Piney Ridge. Zealously she tries to change the ways of the stubborn and proud Appalachian people - but to no avail. They listen to her crazy ideas about sanitation and other foolishness because to argue would be rude. But in the end they quietly go about their accustomed ways. Ultimately Miss Willie realizes that the hill customs have a beauty and dignity of their own and that some of her efforts to reform them were ill-conceived. Her warmth, generosity, and humor help her bridge the gap and find fulfillment in Piney Ridge. This is a story of reconciliation and the coming together of two different ways of life. Above all, it is a story of people and of the land to which they belong.
Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813108094
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book 40 Acres and No Mule written by Janice Holt Giles and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1940s, Janice and Henry Giles moved from Louisville, Kentucky, back to the Appalachian hill country where Henry had grown up and where his family had lived since the time of the Revolution. With their savings, the couple bought a ramshackle house and forty acres of land on a ridge top and set out to be farmers like Henry's forebears. To this personal account of the trials of a city woman trying to learn the ways of the country and of her neighbors, Janice Holt Giles brings the same warmth, humor, and powers of observation that characterize her novels. Enlightening and evocative, personal and universally pertinent, this description of a year of "backaches, fun, low ebbs, and high tides, and above all a year of eminent satisfaction" will be welcomed by Janice Holt Giles's many readers, old and new. Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.
Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher : Norman S. Berg Publisher, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780910220750
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Six-Horse Hitch written by Janice Holt Giles and published by Norman S. Berg Publisher, Limited. This book was released on 1975 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janice Giles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813129125
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Hill Man written by Janice Giles and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " After writing Hill Man , Janice Holt Giles said, ""I was struck by its strength. It is the most realistic ridge book we have written, completely honest and presenting the truest picture of most of the ridge men."" Giles originally published the book in paperback in 1954 under the pseudonym John Garth. Her usual publisher declined to issue the novel, arguing that it was too sexual and violent for a writer whose other books were popular family book club selections. Now one of the most sought-after novels in the Giles canon, Hill Man desired as much for its rarity as for its compelling and unromanticized portrayal of poor, rural Kentuckians. This special edition marks the first time the book has ever been available in hardback. The novel's hero is Rady Cromwell, a man with dangerous ways that make men admire him and women love him. Born the son of a preacher in the hills of Kentucky, Rady grows into a shrewd but likeable prankster and hell-raiser with a gift for separating people from their money. Beginning his adult life with nothing more than a gun, a dog, and a guitar, Rady becomes a backwoods entrepreneur, working diligently to climb the social and economic ladder. Hill Man follows Rady from his poor beginnings through his conquests of various women and pieces of property. Bold, inventive, hard working, and good natured, Rady follows every opportunity that comes along and takes great pride in raising a herd of cattle or a successful crop of corn or tobacco. Yet he also delights in singing folk ballads around a fire, in the thrill of a foxhunt by moonlight, and in the refreshing waters of a stream after a long day in the fields.
Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813108483
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Land Beyond the Mountains written by Janice Holt Giles and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1995-10-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her fourth novel of the Kentucky frontier, Giles combines her fascination for the past with her gift for storytelling. Had it not been for the loyalty of men like Giles's fictional hero, Major Cassius Cartwright, General James Wilkinson's 1783 attempt to create a Spanish empire in the West might have succeeded. Interwoven with the Spanish Conspiracy are tales of struggles with Indians, of the birth of a Green River Valley town, and of the two women Cass loves: Rachel, a gentle Quaker, and Tattie, a fiery waif he rescues from Philadelphia slums. Like Giles's earlier historical novels, The Land Beyond the Mountains is an engaging story of adventure and romance. First published in 1958, this reprint gives Giles fans another lively piece of Kentucky's frontier history. Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.
Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Johnny Osage written by Janice Holt Giles and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948986090
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Damned Engineers written by Janice Holt Giles and published by . This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion in World War II, and in particular about its involvement in the Battle of the Bulge. The 291st was a small unit but it played a pivotal role in stemming the German counter-offensive in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. This history is no mere accounting of events, causes, and results, but rather it conveys the real experiences of ordinary men who, when placed in extraordinary circumstances, displayed the courage and fortitude to get the job done. And, as Janice Holt Giles wrote, the 291st Engineers not only got the job done, but they "gave a damned good account of themselves."
Author : Sandra L. Ballard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081312283X
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Listen Here written by Sandra L. Ballard and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief biographies and primary / secondary source bibliographies are presented for each author. Authors of note are Harriette Simpson Arnow, Annie Dillard, Wilma Dykeman, Denise Giardina, Barbara Kingsolver, and George Ella Lyon.
Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813189705
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Wellspring written by Janice Holt Giles and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last book Giles published before her death in 1979, Wellspring has been out of print for years. The nineteen selections bring together Giles's fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, and fictionalized autobiography to reveal a behind-the-scenes look at her life, her family, her love for her adopted state of Kentucky and its people, her politics, her favorite authors, her thoughts on writing, and her views of her own work. Wellspring is available again for old and new readers of Janice Holt Giles. Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.
Author : John E. Kleber
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813149746
Total Pages : 1029 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Louisville written by John E. Kleber and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 1029 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 1,800 entries, The Encyclopedia of Louisville is the ultimate reference for Kentucky's largest city. For more than 125 years, the world's attention has turned to Louisville for the annual running of the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May. Louisville Slugger bats still reign supreme in major league baseball. The city was also the birthplace of the famed Hot Brown and Benedictine spread, and the cheeseburger made its debut at Kaelin's Restaurant on Newburg Road in 1934. The "Happy Birthday" had its origins in the Louisville kindergarten class of sisters Mildred Jane Hill and Patty Smith Hill. Named for King Louis XVI of France in appreciation for his assistance during the Revolutionary War, Louisville was founded by George Rogers Clark in 1778. The city has been home to a number of men and women who changed the face of American history. President Zachary Taylor was reared in surrounding Jefferson County, and two U.S. Supreme Court Justices were from the city proper. Second Lt. F. Scott Fitzgerald, stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor during World War I, frequented the bar in the famous Seelbach Hotel, immortalized in The Great Gatsby. Muhammad Ali was born in Louisville and won six Golden Gloves tournaments in Kentucky.
