Requiem by fire : a novel / Wayne Caldwell.
Caldwell follows up the well-received Cataloochee with this homespun effort about a close-knit mountain village's fight to keep the land its inhabitants have spent their lives cultivating. In 1928, the residents of Cataloochee, N.C., are given an ultimatum by the National Parks Commission to either resign their farmland for a price, or remain, but have their property leased back to them by the government. At the core of this conflict is Silas Wright, a farmer who locks horns with the Parks Commission, disputes both of the options offered, and refuses to succumb to governmental demands. Attorney Oliver Babcock is also making rounds about town securing agreements to negotiate as well. Wright contemplates a lawsuit against the commission, for which longtime resident Jim Hawkins is now enlisted to be a warden of the park to come. Mild melodrama ensues as the government removes residents from their homes, a mysterious death occurs, Hawkins contends with an unhappy family, and the town fire-starter gets up to his old tricks again.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400063444
- ISBN: 1400063442
- ISBN: 9780965865708
- ISBN: 0965865703
- Physical Description: xii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2010]
- Copyright: ©2010
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- Mountain life > Great Smoky Mountains Region (N.C. and Tenn.) > Fiction.
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.) > History > Fiction. - Genre:
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- 64 of 67 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Madison County Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Madison Main Library | FIC CAL (Text) | 30229101304292 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Mars Hill Library | FIC CAL (Text) | 30229100668887 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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