by Janice Holt Giles (Author)

Originally published in 1950, The Enduring Hills was Janice Holt Giles's first novel. It is based in part on her own courtship and introduction to the Kentucky mountain country. Here, Giles introduces Hod and Mary Pierce and begins her Appalachian trilogy. Hod Pierce, a boy not unlike Henry Giles, who grows up on Piney Ridge, where generations of Pierces have made a living from the stubborn soil. Hod loves his people and the land but longs also for wider horizons, for more education, and for th

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'The Enduring Hills' was Janice Holt Giles's first novel. Originally published in 1950, it was based in part on her own introduction to the Kentudky mountain country where her husband's family had lived since Revolutionary times.