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'A twisted spar whistled through the air like a cannon ball, cutting through the tops of two maple trees. The air became black with coal dust. As the last echo of the explosion began to thin in the distance, the boy could hear the leaves from the trees settling to the ground around him...'In... read more

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First Sentence

Three men and a boy sat in the dark in a battered 1958 Ford on a shale road that wound along the base of the mountain.

Authors & Contributors

  1. James Lee Burke (Author)

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  1. 1960s
  2. 8/3/2004
  3. kentucky
  4. mining 
 

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