Description
Charles Frazier, the acclaimed author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons, returns with a dazzling novel set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s. With his brilliant portrait of Luce, a young woman who inherits her murdered sister’s troubled twins, Frazier has created his most memorable heroine. Before the children, Luce was content with the reimbursements of the rich Appalachian landscape, choosing to live apart from the small community around her. But the coming of the children changes everything, cracking open her solitary life in difficult, hopeful, dangerous ways. In a lean, tight narrative, Nightwoods resonates with the timelessness of a great work of art.
“Impossible to shake.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Fantastic.”—The Washington Post
“Astute and compassionate.”—The Boston Globe
Advance Praise
"...[A] taut narrative of love and suspense, told against a grittybackground of bootlegging and violence. The characters are rich andunforgettable, and the prose almost lyrical. This is Charles Frazier at hisbest. ...Just mention a new novel by the Cold Mountain author, and aline will start forming."
-Booklist
"...[T]hink Thunder Road meets Night of the Hunter meets old murderballads. This is a suspenseful noir nightmare, complete with bootleggers andswitchblades."
-The Daily Beast
"A rare and extraordinary book...heart-stopping...spellbinding."
-San Francisco Chronicle on Cold Mountain
"A boisterous, confident novel that draws from the epic tradition: It tipsits hat to Don Quixote as well as Twain and Melville, and it boldly setsout to capture a broad swatch of America's story in the mid-nineteenthcentury."
-The Boston Globe on Thirteen Moons
PRAISE FOR CHARLES FRAZIER
Cold Mountain
"Natural-born storytellers come along only rarely. Charles Frazier joins theranks of that elite cadre on the first page of his astonishing debut."-Newsweek
"Prose filled with grace notes and trenchant asides . . . a Whitmanesque forayinto America: into its hugeness, its freshness, its scope and its soul . . .such a memorable book."-The New York Times Book Review
"A rare and extraordinary book . . . heart-stopping . . . spellbinding."-SanFrancisco Chronicle
Thirteen Moons
"A boisterous, confident novel that draws from the epic tradition: It tips itshat to Don Quixote as well as Twain and Melville, and it boldly sets outto capture a broad swatch of America's story in the mid-nineteenth century."-TheBoston Globe
"Frazier works on an epic scale, but his genius is in the details-he has ascholar's command of the physical realities of early America and a novelist'sgift for bringing them to life."-Time
"Magical . . . fascinating and moving . . . You will find much to admire andsavor in Thirteen Moons."-USA Today
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780679644149 |
| PRICE | $12.99 (USD) |
