Title:
The ballad of Laurel Springs / Janet Beard.
ISBN:
9781982151560
9781982151577
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021.
©2021
Physical Description:
viii, 273 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Pretty Polly: Grace, 2019 -- The wife of Usher's Well: Pearl (Grace's great-great-great-great-grandmother), 1907-1908 -- The wayfaring stranger: Miriam (Pearl's daughter-in-law), 1925 -- Careless love blues: Frieda (Miriam's "stepdaughter"), 1937 -- Devil's dream: Polly (Frieda's half-sister), 1942-1962 -- Little Sparrow: Sarah (Polly's daughter), 1974-1975 -- The Knoxville girl: Carrie (Sarah's daughter), 1985-1993 -- Power in the blood: Lydia (Carrie's "goddaughter"), 2011-2013 -- Pretty Polly (reprise): Polly (Lydia's great-great-great-great-aunt), 1891.
Summary:
"A provocative new novel by the nationally bestselling author of The Atomic City Girls, about nine generations of one family in Eastern Tennessee whose women, in eerie echoes of the notorious Appalachian murder ballads made famous by singers, over more than a century have been traumatized by acts of violence"-- Provided by publisher.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
on1193559650
Availability:
Apple Valley - Galaxie~1
Burnsville - Burnhaven~1
Eagan - Wescott~1
Farmington~1
Hastings - Pleasant Hill~1
