Sharyn Mccrumb

Ghost Riders

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Produktbeschreibung

Critically acclaimed New York Times-bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb chronicles the Civil War in the Southern mountains.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blair
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780895875761
• ISBN-10: 0895875764
• Artikelnr.: 34749984

Autorenporträt

Sharyn McCrumb is an award-winning Southern writer best known for her Appalachian Ballad novels, including New York Times bestsellers The Ballad of Frankie Silver, She Walks These Hills, and The Ballad of Tom Dooley. Ghost Riders was the winner of the Wilma Dykeman Award for Literature, given by the East Tennessee Historical Society, and the Audie Award for Best Recorded Book. She was a guest author at the National Festival of the Book in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the White House in 2006, and in 2008, the Library of Virginia named her a "Virginia Woman of History" for Achievement in Literature. In 2014, she was awarded the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Southern Literature by North Carolina's Chowan University. She lives and writes near Roanoke, Virginia. "A sprawling, multilayered tale" - Kirkus Reviews "Bestselling North Carolina writer McCrumb (The Songcatcher, etc.) returns with another epic ballad of a novel, a multi-tiered Civil War story that links past and present with an otherworldly twist." - Publishers Weekly