![]() ![]() Two missing children, unscrupulous land grabbing (past and present), a shooting, a manhunt and visits from both an angel and a ghost are rendered with little suspense or mystery in McCrumb's fourth ballad novel, following the bestselling She Walks These Hills. In a style both lyrical and beautifully detailed, with a narrative that flows from Native American lore and the burnished tales of Daniel Boone-up to the sharpest, and keenly realized landscapes of Appalachia today, The Rosewood Casket is a novel as hauntingly beautiful as the mountains that gave it charge-and a stunning addition to our collection of McCrumb Ballad novels. Among them, a real estate developer is hovering over the family's farm bringing secrets and tensions to the surface. Meanwhile, mountain wisewoman, Nora Bonesteel, prepares another box-to be buried with him. The stage is set for family drama when Randall Stargill lies dying on his southern Appalachian farm, and his four sons come home to build him a coffin made from the special cache of rosewood he has saved for this purpose. With a career spanning decades, and superlatives from reviewers nationwide-whose bestselling novels have been named Notable Books by the New York Times and the LA Times-this is one of Sharyn McCrumb's most cherished novels. No one better either." - San Diego Union-Tribune There is no one quite like among present-day writers. ![]()
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