Cataloochee: A Novel

Cataloochee: A Novel

â€œA brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America.â€
â€“Charles Frazier

Against the breathtaking backdrop of Appalachia comes a rich, multilayered postâ€”Civil War saga of three generations of familiesâ€“their dreams, their downfalls, and their faith. Cataloochee is a slice of southern Americana told in the classic tradition of Flannery Oâ€™Connor and William Faulkner.

Nestled in the mountains of North Carolina sits Cataloochee. In a time when â€œwhere you was born was where God wanted you,â€ the Wrights and the Carters, both farming families, travel to the valley to escape the rapid growth of neighboring towns and to have a few hundred acres all to themselves. But progress eventually winds its way to Cataloochee, too, and year after year the population swells as more people come to the valley to stake their fortune.

Never one to pass on opportunity, Ezra Banks, an ambitious young man seeking some land of his own, arrives in Cataloochee in the 1880s. His first order of business is to marry a Carter girl, Hannah, the daughter of the valleyâ€™s largest landowner. From there Ezraâ€™s brood grows, as do those of the Carters and the Wrights. With hard work and determination, the burgeouning community transforms wilderness into home, to be passed on through generations.

But the idyll is not to last, nor to be inherited: The government takes steps to relocate folks to make room for the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, and tragedy will touch one of the clans in a single, unimaginable act.

Wayne Caldwell brings to life the communityâ€™s historic struggles and close kinships over a span of six decades. Full of humor, darkness, beauty, and wisdom, Cataloochee is a classic novel of place and family.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780812973730
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2008-06-10
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812973730

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780812973730
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2008-06-10
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812973730

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