Harriette Simpson Arnow
Born in Wayne County, Kentucky on July 7, 1908, Arnow lived on a
farm near Ann Arbor, Michigan for most of her life. Arnow attended
Berea College for two years (1926-1928) before completing her de...
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Mountain Path
Harriette Simpson Arnow
Introduction by Sandra L. Ballard
Masterfully wrought and keenly observed, Mountain Path draws
on Harriette Simpson Arnow’s experiences as a schoolteacher in
downtrodden Pulaski County, Kentucky, deep in the heart of
Appalachia, prior to WWII. Far from a quaint portrait of rural life,
Arnow’s novel documents hardships, poverty, illiteracy, and
struggles. She also recognizes a fragile cultural richness, one
characterized by “those who like open fires, hounds, children, human
talk and song instead of TV and radio, the wisdom of the old who had
seen all of life from birth to death,” and which has since been
eroded by the advent of highways and industry. In Mountain
Path, Arnow exquisitely captures the voices, faces, and ways of
a people she cared for deeply, and who evoked in her a deep respect
and admiration.
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274 pp., 6.00" x 9.00", July 2012
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