M.C. Higgins, the Great

What is the setting in the novel, M.C. Higgins, the Great?

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The story begins in the early 1960s in an isolated mountainous area near the Ohio River, where coal and steel are the major industries. The exact location is never given, for the story takes place in an area cut off from the outside world.

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