The New Statesman
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Barbara Kingsolver's new book , Holding the Line , is published for the first time in the UK .
It is a compelling account of what became known as the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 .
Her account of a strike that was part of the global dismantling of organised labour in the 1980s is very much a women's story.
Barbara Kingsolver has no truck with non-fiction’s claim to objectivity.
This is a book telling a specific story, not one about the broader labour movement.
In Holding the Line readers will discover what made Kingsolver the novelist she is now.
The strikers lost their battle but these women discovered new possibilities for themselves.
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