Cataloochee

Name: Cataloochee
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Wayne Caldwell
ISBN: 9781436116312

Author: Wayne Caldwell

Narrator: Scott Sowers

Unabridged: 12 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/11/2008

Categories: Fiction, Sagas

Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on April 06, 2022

4.5 What a time I had with these characters in this novel! Several generations of a few families in Chataloochie in the Great Smoky Mountains.. beginning in 1830. This novel follows these characters (the good, the bad, the ugly) until 1930, a time when the United Stated government wanted to buy this l......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on June 30, 2011

How many times as a kid did I ride from Lexington, KY on a Friday night with my family down I-75 to the misty and dangerous JELLICO MOUNTAIN as the sun set to our right, then hang a sharp left at Knoxville and slide in Gatlinburg in all its cheesy, wondrous mountain glory? A million or more, it seem......more

Goodreads review by Terry on July 18, 2022

4.5 stars for a highly enjoyable family saga, which I won’t summarize here, but which kept me entertained throughout. Memorable characters, both good and bad, some action and the local flavor of speech and descriptions kept me smiling frequently with original turns of phrase. I listened to the Audib......more