The Enduring Hills - Hardcover

Giles, Janice Holt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0739432567 ISBN 13: 9780739432563

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971

Synopsis

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 the freedom he imagines can be found in the outside world. It takes World War II to carry Hod away from the Ridge and out into the great world, and it is a long time before he comes back. After the war is over, Hod settles into marriage and a factory job in the city. Finally it is Mary, his city-bred wife, who sees at last that to Hod, Piney Ridge will always be home. In her preface to the second edition, Mrs. Giles wrote, "I believe [the story] is timeless and as the hand

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0739432567
• ISBN 13: 9780739432563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2