Mary Coin
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Mary Coin
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The work Mary Coin represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Label
- Mary Coin
- Statement of responsibility
- Marisa Silver
- Subject
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- Women photographers -- Fiction
- trueWomen's lives and relationships
- trueCollege teachers
- trueDepression era (1929-1941) -- 1929 -- 1941
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction
- trueDepressions -- 1929-1941
- trueDivorced men
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 -- Fiction
- trueFarms
- trueGenealogy
- trueHistorical fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueIndians of North America
- Large type books
- trueMen/women relations
- trueMothers
- trueParallel narratives
- truePhotographers
- truePhotojournalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Photojournalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- truePoor people
- Rural poor -- United States -- Fiction
- trueRural poor people
- trueWidows
- Women migrant labor -- Fiction
- trueWomen migrant workers
- trueWomen photographers
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in Central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting the migrant laborers who have taken to America's farms in search of work. Little personal information is exchanged, and neither woman has any way of knowing that they have produced what will become the most iconic image of the Great Depression. Three vibrant characters anchor the narrative of Mary Coin. Mary, the migrant mother herself, who emerges as a woman with deep reserves of courage and nerve, with private passions and carefully-guarded secrets. Vera Dare, the photographer wrestling with creative ambition who makes the choice to leave her children in order to pursue her work. And Walker Dodge, a present-day professor of cultural history, who discovers a family mystery embedded in the picture. In luminous, exquisitely rendered prose, Silver creates an extraordinary tale from a brief moment in history, and reminds us that although a great photograph can capture the essence of a moment, it only scratches the surface of a life
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3619.I55
- LC item number
- M37 2013b
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press large print core
- Target audience
- adult
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