The Rosewood Casket, Sharyn McCrumb
The Rosewood Casket, Sharyn McCrumb
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The Rosewood Casket

Author: Sharyn McCrumb

Series: Ballad #4

Narrator: Sally Darling

Unabridged: 11 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/12/2012

Synopsis

Award-winning Southern writer Sharyn McCrumb is a New York Times best-selling author who's won widespread critical acclaim for her Appalachian Ballad novels. In The Rosewood Casket, a farmer named Randall Stargill has fallen into a coma. As his family gathers to prepare for the inevitable, his four sons work on a handmade casket and their wives sew a quilt to line it. Complications arise, however, when clairvoyant neighbor Nora Bonesteel brings her own disturbing contribution to the coffin: a small box containing a child's skeleton.

About Sharyn McCrumb

Sharyn McCrumb is the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Ballad novels. She has received numerous honors for her work, including the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Southern Literature, the AWA Book of the Year, and Notable Books in both The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. She was also named a Virginia Woman of History for Achievement in Literature. She lives and writes in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, fewer than one hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by RUTH on 2009-04-10 12:52:02

EXCELLENT READING! SO INTO FAMILY VALUES AND TIES. KEEPS YOU ON EDGE!

Goodreads review by Jeff

Great McCrumb, written before she lost her way. Story of a dying man in the hills of Tennessee and the effects his passing has on his family and neighbors. The substory of Dovey Stallard and her father is an extremely sad, but beautifully written, work of art. Highly recommended.......more

Goodreads review by Jackson

A number of intriguing elements intertwined through this book. The narrative lost focus about a third of the way through. McCrumb probably could have made this a masterpiece if she had set it aside and went back to it later for serious editing and reworking. It's really too bad she didn't.......more

Goodreads review by Lori

In the Tennessee Appalachian Mountains in a made-up county, a real estate developer wants to take land held by the Stargill and Stallard families for decades. A comatose Randall Stargill is found by his neighbor after he doesn't see him for a couple days. He sees the man's written wish to die at hom......more

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