- Literature, Fiction, Environmentalism, Avarice
The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive from Boston in the North Carolina mountains to create a timber empire. Serena is new to the mountains - but she soon shows herself the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her husband's life in the wilderness.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Ron Rash
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 371
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, Ecco, Canongate Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061470851
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