River of Earth (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: James Still
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Regional
- Time of Work: Early 1930’s
- Setting: Kentucky
- Genres: Long fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Prisons, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Escapes, 1930’s, Poverty or poor people, Grandparents or grandchildren, Mines, miners, or mining, Appalachia, Kentucky, Hunger, Starvation, Mountaineering
- Locales: Kentucky
Characters Discussed
Brack’s Oldest Boy, the narrator. The events in this story of poverty-ridden Kentucky mountaineers are seen through the eyes of this young boy, who is observant but too young to comprehend some of what he observes.
Brack Baldridge, his father. Poverty and depression are not Brack’s only enemies in his struggle to keep his family from starving. He is too humane to deny food to miners out of work and begging for their families, or to send sponging relatives away.
Alpha Baldridge, Brack’s wife. In desperation, she moves her furniture and...
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