The Last Ballad
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The Last Ballad

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eBook - ePub

The Last Ballad

About this book

Inspired by actual events, The Last Ballad is a moving tale of courage in the face of oppression, with all the emotional power of Cold Mountain and The Secret Scripture

'A powerful book that speaks to contemporary concerns through historical injustice. Cash vividly blends the archival with the imaginative.' New York Times Book Review

For twenty-eight-year-old Ella May Wiggins life is tough. Her no-good husband, John, has run off again, and she must keep her four young children alive with the only work she can find, the night shift at American Mill No. 2 in Bessemer City, North Carolina

When union leaflets begin circulating, Ella May has a taste of hope, a yearning for the better life the organizers promise. But the mill owners, backed by other nefarious forces, claim the union is nothing but a front for the Bolshevik menace sweeping across Europe. To maintain their control, the owners will use every means in their power, including bloodshed, to prevent workers from banding together.

Seventy-five years later, Ella May's daughter Lilly, now an elderly woman, tells her nephew about his grandmother and the events that transformed their family forever.

Paying tribute to the thousands of heroic women and men who risked their lives to win basic rights for all workers, The Last Ballad is lyrical, heartbreaking and haunting, and the novel which confirms Wiley Cash's place among America's finest writers.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2018
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9780571340712
Subtopic
Historical Fiction
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Chapter One: Ella May
  8. Chapter Two: Lilly Wiggins
  9. Chapter Three: Verchel Park
  10. Chapter Four: Ella May
  11. Chapter Five: Brother
  12. Chapter Six: Claire McAdam
  13. Chapter Seven: Richard McAdam
  14. Chapter Eight: Katherine McAdam
  15. Chapter Nine: Ella May
  16. Chapter Ten: Hampton Haywood
  17. Chapter Eleven: Albert Roach
  18. Chapter Twelve: Hampton Haywood
  19. Chapter Thirteen: Katherine McAdam
  20. Chapter Fourteen: Brother
  21. Chapter Fifteen: Ella May
  22. Chapter Sixteen: Brother
  23. Chapter Seventeen: Lilly Wiggins
  24. Afterword
  25. Further Reading
  26. Acknowledgments
  27. About the Author
  28. Also by the Author
  29. Copyright

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