The PMS Outlaws: An Elizabeth Macpherson Novel - Softcover

McCrumb, Sharyn

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9780345382320: The PMS Outlaws: An Elizabeth Macpherson Novel

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ISBN 10: 0345382323 ISBN 13: 9780345382320

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2001

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While forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson is hospitalized for depression, her brother Bill purchases a mansion to use as an office only to find an unexpected resident, and Bill's law partner is fast on the trail of the "PMS Outlaws"--an escaped convict and her fugitive attorney who attack men in pickup joints. Reprint.

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About the Author:

Sharyn McCrumb is a New York Times bestselling author whose work has been cited for "Outstanding Contribution to Appalachian Literature." She has received the Chaffin and Plattner Awards for Southern fiction, two Best Appalachian Novel awards, and many other honors. She launched her acclaimed Appalachian Ballad novel series with If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O.

Sharyn McCrumb has been writer-in-residence at King College (Tennessee) and Shepherd College (West Virginia), and she has lectured on her work at universities and libraries throughout the United States and Europe. She lives and writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge.

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author Sharyn McCrumb, internationally acclaimed for the "quiet fire"* of her Appalachian Ballad novels, clearly has a dark side--a wicked, sardonic wit that has prompted critics to compare her to Jane Austen and Jonathan Swift.

Readers and reviewers alike also have lauded Ms. McCrumb for her inspired chronicles of forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson. In her newest tale in the MacPherson saga, McCrumb examines society's fascination with beauty--and the deceptiveness of outer appearances. Elizabeth herself, hospitalized for depression over her missing husband, learns that insanity liberates one from polite hypocrisy, enabling a "crazy lady" to remark: "Anorexia is not a disease; it's a career move."

Out in the real world, Elizabeth's brother Bill has bought a stately old mansion to use as his law office, only to find that the house comes with a charming codger-in-residence who is far too old to be a dangerous outlaw. . . isn't he? Meanwh

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