The Low Road
A Scottish Family Memoir
Published on 31. March 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
259 pages
978-0-87013-640-5 (ISBN)
Description
Here Valerie Miner provides an account of her family's migration from Edinburgh's tenements across the world. Focusing on the life journeys of her grandmother, her mother and herself, Miner searches for truth about family members, unveiling family secrets and missing histories.
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Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
426 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87013-640-5 (9780870136405)
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Person
Valerie Miner is an award-winning author of twelve books. Her novels include Range of Light, A Walking Fire, Winter's Edge, Blood Sisters: A Novel, All Good Women, and Murder in the English Department. Her short fiction work includes Trespassing and Other Stories, The Night Singers, and Movement: A Novel in Stories, and a collection of essays Rumors from the Cauldron. Her book The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir was a finalist for the PEN USA Creative Nonfiction Award in 2002. Valerie Miner is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota.