Requiem by Fire: A Novel

Requiem by Fire: A Novel

Charles Frazier called Cataloochee, Wayne Caldwellâ€™s acclaimed debut, â€œa brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America.â€ Now, in Requiem by Fire, Caldwell returns to the same fertile Appalachian ground that provided the setting for his first novel, recalling a singular time in American history when the greater good may not have been best for everyone.

Â Â Â In the late 1920s, Cataloochee, North Carolina, a settlement tucked deep in the Great Smoky Mountains, is home to nearly eleven hundred soulsâ€”many of them prosperous farmers whose ancestors broke the first furrows a century earlier. Now attorney Oliver Babcock, Jr., has been given the difficult task of presenting the locals with two options: sell their land to the federal government for the creation of a national park or remain behind at their own financial peril.Â

Â Â Â While some of the areaâ€™s inhabitants seem ready to embrace a new and modern life, others, deeply embedded in their rural ways, are resistant. Silas Wrightâ€™s cantankerous unwillingness to sell or to follow the new rules leads to some knotty and often amusing predicaments. Jim Hawkins, hired by the Parks commission, has relocated his reluctant wife, Nell, and their children to Cataloochee, but Nellâ€™s unhappiness forces Jim to make a dire choice between his roots and his family. And a sinisterÂ force is at work in the form of the deranged Willie McPeters, who threatens those who have decided to stay put.

Â Â Â Requiem by Fire is a moving, timeless tale of survival and change. With humor and pathos, this magnificent novel transports readers to another time and placeâ€”and celebrates Southern storytelling at its finest.
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Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2010-02-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400063444

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2010-02-23
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400063444

Requiem by Fire: A Novel

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