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The ballad of Laurel Springs / Janet Beard.
Van Pelt Library PS3602.E248 B35 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beard, Janet, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Family secrets--Fiction.
- Family secrets.
- Ballads.
- Women--Violence against.
- Women.
- East Tennessee.
- United States.
- Murder--Fiction.
- Murder.
- Women--Violence against--United States--Fiction.
- Ballads--Fiction.
- Tennessee, East--Fiction.
- Tennessee, East.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Suspense fiction.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 273 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021.
- 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.
- Ten-year-old Grace is in search of a subject for her fifth-grade history project when she learns that her four times-great grandfather once stabbed his lover to death. His grisly act was memorialised in a murder ballad, her aunt tells her, so it must be true. Her family's tangled past is part of a dark legacy in which the lives of generations of women are affected by the violence immortalised in folksongs like 'Knoxville Girl' and 'Pretty Polly' reminding them always to know their place-- or risk the wages of sin. -- adapted from jacket
- 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.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Beard, Janet, The ballad of laurel springs
- ISBN:
- 9781982151560
- 1982151560
- 9781982151577
- 1982151579
- OCLC:
- 1193559650
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