Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories - Softcover

McCrumb, Sharyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345414942 ISBN 13: 9780345414946

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1998

Synopsis

Foggy Mountain Breakdown, the first-ever collection of Sharyn McCrumb's short fiction, is a literary quilting of old and new, humorous and heartfelt, offering award-winning works - and two stories never before published - contrasting mountain childhoods past and present. Chilling tales of suspense alternate with evocative character portraits and compelling narratives that embrace the southern Appalachian locales and themes of McCrumb's acclaimed Ballad Novels. Within this cornucopia of two dozen stories, Old Rattler, a mountain healer, skirmishes with a serial killer...Princess Di investigates long-kept secrets within the House of Windsor...a reincarnated murder victim seeks delicious revenge...and while honeymooning in the bridegroom's ancestral hilltop homeplace, two newlyweds harbor second thoughts.

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Review:

"Nearly every story in this collection is a standout . . . McCrumb's stories will pluck at the heart like a twangy country love tune; they'll make readers wonder, laugh, weep, and mourn; they'll evoke anger, sorrow, fear, and tenderness; they'll entertain, repel, delight, and mesmerize". -- Booklist (starred review)

About the Author:

Sharyn McCrumb is an internationally acclaimed New York Times bestselling author whose work has been honored with all five of the major awards in crime fiction (Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, and Nero)--and two Best Appalachian Novel awards. She is the creator of the Ballad Novel series, which began with If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy O. The most recent installment in her satirical mystery series featuring forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson is If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him... .

Ms. McCrumb lives in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains.with her husband David and their two younger children, less than a hundred miles from the Smoky Mountain valley where her ancestors settled in 1790.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0345414942
• ISBN 13: 9780345414946
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 352