Holding the Line by Barbara Kingsolver - Episode 1: The Truck from Tennessee
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author introduces her first book, an eye witness account of a women-led strike in 1980s Arizona. Read by Laurel Lefkow
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver introduces her first book, now published in the UK for the first time - an eye witness account of the Great Arizona Mine Strike of the 1980s. Stepping up when the men of the union were barred from picketing, the women miners, wives and sisters of the community took on the battle as Kingsolver looked on, capturing a cast of fascinating women at a transformative point in their lives.
Read by Laurel Lefkow
Abridged by Eileen Horne
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie
In the decades since Kingsolver wrote 'Holding the Line', she has become the global prize-winning and bestselling author of ten novels including 'Unsheltered', 'The Poisonwood Bible' and 'Demon Copperhead'. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She has won the Women鈥檚 Prize for Fiction twice, and the Pulitzer. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
A 蜜芽传媒 Audio Scotland production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4.
