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Read * Foggy Mountain Breakdown: & Other Stories PDF by * Sharyn McCrumb eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Foggy Mountain Breakdown: & Other Stories Five Stars Amazon Customer Reading stories by Sharon is like receiving a rare and special gift. Love them!. A Customer said A great introduction into the work of Ms McCrumb. Having previously only sampled 'Highland Laddie Gone' I picked up this book by chance whilst travelling in New Hampshire. Being from the UK the stories which were specifically set within the Smokey Mountians and Apalacians which McCrumb so dearly loves I imagined would have less of a pull than some of the other more 'general
Title | : | Foggy Mountain Breakdown: & Other Stories |
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.51 (799 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1933299746 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 488 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2014-10-26 |
Language | : | English |
Five Stars Amazon Customer Reading stories by Sharon is like receiving a rare and special gift. Love them!. A Customer said A great introduction into the work of Ms McCrumb. Having previously only sampled 'Highland Laddie Gone' I picked up this book by chance whilst travelling in New Hampshire. Being from the UK the stories which were specifically set within the Smokey Mountians and Apalacians which McCrumb so dearly loves I imagined would have less of a pull than some of the other more 'general' stories. I could not have been more wrong. These tales had a lyrical quality and even the saddest stories held a quite beautiful mystici. Wonderful! rebelmomof2 A long time ago, my parents and I went to hear McCrumb give a reading at a local college and we were hooked by her storytelling. She shared quite a few of these short stories with us that night and when I re-discovered them in my parents' bookcases over Thanksgiving, I made sure I brought this one home. I love every single one of these stories. They are fun, interesting and reminds me that she is a wonderful storyteller. Sometimes, I feel as if story-telling i
"I come from a race of stortytellers," writes Sharyn McCrumb in her introduction to the first complete collection of her wonderfully rich and mordant short stories. "My father's family--the Arrowoods and the McCourys--settled in the Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina when the wilderness was still Indian country." Like McCrumb's fine novels (She Walks These Hills and a dozen others), these 24 stories link the mysteries of the past with life in present-day Appalachia, using chains of words stronger than any steel.
Foggy Mountain Breakdown is the first-ever collection of Sharyn McCrumb’s short fiction. It is a unique blend of chilling tales of suspense with compelling and humorous narratives that embrace the southern Appalachian locales and themes of McCrumb’s acclaimed ballad novels. This collection of seven wild tales, in addition to the title story—an edge of your seat, coming of age suspense tale—includes two ‘ghost’ stories, "Remains to Be Seen" and "An autumn Migration," and the wryly murderous correspondence of "Gentle Reader." The readers, as diverse as the stories themselves, include CSI: Miami’s Rex
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