The Marrowbone Marble Company
By: Glenn Taylor
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Clipper large print; Clipper large print
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rearsby [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9781407470542
Subjects: Social conflict; Fiction
Description: "1941. Loyal Ledford works the swing shift tending furnace at the Mann Glass factory in Huntington, West Virginia. He courts Rachel, the boss's daughter, a company nurse with spike-straight posture and coal-black hair. But when Pearl Harbour is attacked, Ledford, like so many young men of his time, sets his life on a new course. Upon his return from service in the war, Ledford starts a family with Rachel, but he chafes under the authority at Mann Glass. He is a lost man, disconnected from the present and haunted by his violent past, until he meets his cousins, the Bonecutter brothers. Their land, mysterious, elemental Marrowbone Cut, calls to Ledford, and it is there, with help from an unlikely bunch, that the Marrowbone Marble Company is slowly forged. Over the next two decades, the factory grounds become a vanguard of the civil rights movement and the war on poverty, a home for those intent on change. Such a home inevitably invites trouble, and Ledford must fight for his family."--Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published in the United Kingdom by Blue Door.