Tag Archives: Award
Charles Price. Freedom’s Altar. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 1999.
Set in the violent, lawless days just after the Civil War, this novel explores the deeply complicated questions about how the South would recover and adjust to new ideas about race and class. Daniel McFee, a former slave who had … Continue reading
Filed under 1990-1999, 1999, Historical, Mountains, Price, Charles
Robert Morgan. Gap Creek. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2000.
Gap Creek follows a newlywed couple in Appalachian North and South Carolina in the early 1900s. Julie Harmon Richards, an independent hard-working woman, narrates the story of the difficulties she and her husband face just trying to get by. Battling … Continue reading
Filed under 2000, 2000-2009, Avery, Historical, Morgan, Robert, Mountains
Marianne Gingher. Bobby Rex’s Greatest Hit. New York: Atheneum, 1986.
Everyone in the small town of Orfax, N.C. is astir when local rock-and-roller Bobby Rex hits the big time with his song “Pally Thompson.” The only one who isn’t thrilled about it is Pally Thompson, who insists that she didn’t … Continue reading
Judy Goldman. The Slow Way Back. New York: William Morrow, 1999.
Thea McKee is a woman with a successful radio call-in show in Charlotte, N.C., when she receives in the mail a packet of letters written by her grandmother more than 60 years ago. As she seeks help understanding the letters … Continue reading
Filed under 1990-1999, 1999, Goldman, Judy, Mecklenburg, Piedmont
Charles Frazier. Cold Mountain. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997.
Cold Mountain is the story of Inman, a deserter from the Confederate Army, and his long journey home to the mountains of North Carolina during the last year of the Civil War. The novel alternates between Inman’s struggles and those … Continue reading
Filed under 1990-1999, 1997, Frazier, Charles, Haywood, Historical, Mountains
Pamela Duncan. Plant Life. New York: Delacorte Press, 2003.
This novel is largely the story of a group of women who work in the textile mill in the fictional Piedmont town of Russell, N.C. The town and its residents are seen through the fresh perspective of newly divorced Laurel … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2003, Duncan, Pamela, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Piedmont
Daphne Athas. Entering Ephesus. New York: Viking, 1971.
The Bishop family has fallen on hard times. Forced to leave their large and comfortable house in Connecticut, they move to the small, provincial town of Ephesus, a fictional Piedmont town based on Chapel Hill. In the midst of the … Continue reading
Filed under 1970-1979, 1971, Athas, Daphne, Historical, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Orange, Piedmont
