A Vein of Riches (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Knowles
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: African Americans, Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Class conflict, Love or romance, Religion, Greed, Mines, miners, or mining, Identity, Coal or coal mining, West Virginia
- Locales: West Virginia
In A Vein of Riches, told from an omniscient point of view, Knowles again takes as his protagonist a young man whose received views are tested by experience. Knowles sets his novel in Middleburg, West Virginia, the center of a coal boom and the home of oil barons whose castles and manors rival those of their counterparts in railroads and steel. While the story begins in 1909, the pivotal event in the novel occurs on April 1, 1919, when the coal miners strike against the owners of the mines.
Knowles begins A Vein of Riches by delineating the positions of the leading...
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