Debut novelist Wayne Caldwell's Cataloochee-a rich, vivid, arresting work beginning at the dawn of Reconstruction-sprawls across the succeeding generations like the vast green mountains of its rural North Carolina setting. Best-selling author Charles Frazier calls it "a brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America." This enthralling saga evokes the full color spectrum of mountain life, from lights to darks and every shade in between.
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“Lovely and gently captivating…Caldwell resists the pull of nostalgia and roamnce, too, and he refuses to turn his characters into colorful, country-fried caricatures. They do speak in dialect, but it’s not a gimmick, and Caldwell’s narration is a beautifully modulated echo of their bluntly musical locution. The author also gives his character plenty of room to amble and grow, and they become the kind of people the reader misses when the last page is turned. A wonderful novel, and a first-rate debut.”
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Kirkus Reviews (starred review)