{"product_id":"none-buth-the-living-paperback","title":"None Buth The Living - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKenneth P. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEzra Burke, like his tenant-farmer father before him, struggles to eke out a living\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom a rented plot of depleted, rocky soil in his beloved Blue Ridge Mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith crops destroyed by a freakish summer storm and hopelessly in debt, he is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eforced into the employ of the wicked and cunning landowner. When further tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estrikes, Ezra, still a young, but now a desperate man, hears of work down in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCorinth-the cotton mills are hiring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith his wife Judith-half Cherokee and who alone bears the burden of a dark and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eterrible secret-and two small children, Ezra leaves the mountains for a new life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein Corinth where he has found work at the mammoth Galway Mill. An honest and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eindependent man, he is ill-prepared for the intrigues, politics, and greed of mill life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the industrial city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the dream of someday returning to the mountains slowly, but inevitability fades, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe hardships and injustices imposed on the workers by the wealthy mill owners\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebecome untenable. When union organizers from the North arrive in Corinth, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esituation intensifies and finally reaches a boiling point. Threatened, manipulated, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand ostracized, Ezra is faced with a choice-one that could cost him everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the backdrop of a recovering South still showing scars of Reconstruction, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enow stifled by the Great Depression, simmering but unspoken racial tensions, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunscrupulous mill owners, None but the Living explores the struggles and pathos of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edisplaced people trying to maintain their identity and values in a world new and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estrange to them-a world of subterfuge, of haves and have-nots, of conformity, of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einjustice. Such is the saga of the Burke family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn: Greenville, SC; Education: Clemson University (BA); University of South Carolina School of Medicine. Married, with two grown children. Currently live in Greenville, SC with wife, Mary. Veteran: USMC. Previous occupations: roofer, ditch digger, forklift operator, special ed teacher, textile worker, salesman, pizza cook, seal hunter, business executive. Currently, a psychotherapist, dividing my time between my private practice and fiction writing. Have had poetry published in regional quarterlies. None but the Living is my first novel.Hobby: wilderness hiking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 285\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751670481184,"sku":"9780998107103","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/eb006336bd6450ff973f9299ae78f162.webp?v=1779977601","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/none-buth-the-living-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}