Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal

by Catherine Young

A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Award winner

"Young's memoir of her hometown is as powerful a picture as Inness' painting, revealing its harsh transformation a century later."

--BOOKLIST

In 1855, the landscape painter George Inness began work on his commissioned painting The Lackawanna Valley. A century later, a girl in Scranton, Pennsylvania, looks out over her coal-strewn homeland wishing for beauty and wondering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1948814838
• ISBN13: 9781948814836
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Torrey House Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"