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Barcode30293102346736
StatusIn Processing
LocationClark County
Call NoF Kriv
TitleMule boy / Andrew Krivak.
AuthorKrivak, Andrew, author.
CollectionF
Total Circ0
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102346736F Kriv3/9/2026 In Processing 

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781954276475 electronic book
International Standard Book Number 9781954276468 paperback
International Standard Book Number 195427646X paperback
Personal Name Krivak, Andrew, author.
Title Statement Mule boy / Andrew Krivak.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : Bellevue Literary Press, 2026.
Physical Description 190 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary, Etc. "On New Year's Day, 1929, Ondro Prach, the thirteen-year-old son of Slovak immigrants in Pennsylvania coal country, begins a new job as mule boy. He knows the danger -- his father died in the mines -- but he is proud of his position handling the animal that hauls cartloads of coal from shafts deep within the earth to the surface. After Ondro earns the trust of the miners and the mule in his charge, the room the men are working collapses and their fate is sealed. From that moment onward, Ondro carries the hard memory of that day, a burden that leads to addiction and imprisonment, costing him his family. But, years later, when the miners' loved ones come searching for answers, he finds the strength to share what the men spoke of and prayed for in the pitch black. Told in incantatory prose set to the rhythm of human breath, this sublime novel turns the memento mori into a meditation not only on death but on what it takes to tunnel through darkness and live"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Death Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Teenage boys Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Mules Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Immigrants Slovakia Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Coal mines and mining Pennsylvania Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Coal mine accidents Pennsylvania Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels.

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