The lives of young Lyle Catherwood, his overbearing, power-hungry father, and neurasthenic mother are played out against the backdrop of the shortlived West Virginia coal boom of the century's first quarter.
FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERALWEST VIRGINIA_FICTION
RELEASED1978
PUBLISHERLittle Brown
LENGTH343
LANGUAGEEN
A Vein of Riches
by John Knowles
The lives of young Lyle Catherwood, his overbearing, power-hungry father, and neurasthenic mother are played out against the backdrop of the shortlived West Virginia coal boom of the century's first quarter.