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Hannah McKarkle returns to her roots in Beulah County, West Virginia, to discover the truth about her brother Johnny's mysterious death in jail
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With The Killing Ground Mary Lee Settle completes her grand design for The Beulah Quintet, an unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom. The novel begins in 1978 with the return of Hannah McKarkle to her hometown of Canona, West Virginia, from which she set out nearly two decades before to remove the shroud of mystery surrounding her brother's death. In her attempt to understand his murder, Hannah pieces together a collective history of Canona and peels away the facades that mask its "best people". In addition to revealing the love affairs, hatreds, resentments, and hypocrisies of Canona's ruling class, she becomes acquainted with the community's unpretentious citizenry with whom her fate is equally tied. Hannah's quest reveals a heritage that extends back to Johnny Church of Prisons, bringing the story of The Beulah Quintet full circle and yielding a tale told with moving conviction.
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This is the final volume in a generation-spanning saga that explores the roots of American culture, class and identity and the meaning of freedom. Spanning more than three centuries, from Cromwell's England to the 1980s, this story is linked by bloodlines, kinships and challenging ideals. Mary Lee Settle has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on the Beulah saga.
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- PublisherCharles Scribner's Sons
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 068418849X
- ISBN 13 9780684188492
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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Paperback. First Ed; First Printing indicated. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR in blue ink on the front endpaper. There is also a printed "signature" at the title page, as do all titles in the signature series. First Ed; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use; wrappers covered with clear vinyl pastedown cover; little or no wear to the wrappers themselves;binding square and secure; text clean. Just a hint of wear to extremities; mildest rubbing; pages tanned a bit. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 385pp. [Book V of the Beulah Quintet]. Trade Paperback. Mary Lee Settle (July 29, 1918, Charleston, West Virginia September 27, 2005, Ivy, Virginia) was an American writer. She won the 1978 National Book Award for her novel Blood Tie and was a founder of the annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Settle is most famous for a series of novels called The Beulah Quintet (Prisons, O Beulah Land, Know Nothing, The Scapegoat, The Killing Ground), which cover the history of West Virginia. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Seller Inventory # 40716
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