Mine Work - Softcover

Jim Davidson, born in Cortez, Colorado, has worked stints as a newspaper publisher, editor and columnist, mostly in the Colorado mountains. In between, he has lived a number of other lives and places, taking useful notes on the jobs, songs and stories of working people. Currently, he's building a straw-bale house in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of south-central Colorado.

...[Davidson] writes a moving tale of not only power and shame but also of redemption. The book is fine reading. -- The Denver Post, September 12, 1999

...flinty and affecting... -- The New York Times Book Review, Jonathan Miles

Haunting...very highly recommended for public libraries. -- Library Journal, October 15, 1999

Mine Work is as fine a novel as has been written about the West's mining past... -- The Salt Lake Tribune, June 18, 2000

With a tone that is often reminiscent of Hemingway, the author writes a moving tale of not only power and shame but also of redemption...the book is fine reading. -- The Denver Post, September, 12 1999

[Mine Work] explodes...into descriptive sprays of language that evoke not just the West but the West's best writers. -- The New York Times Book Review, December 19, 1999

[Mine Work] explodes...into descriptive sprays of language that evoke not just the West but the West's best writers.((The New York Times Book Review, December 19, 1999)) -- The New York Times Book Review, December 19, 1999