The Songcatcher
by Sharyn McCrumb
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Author: Sharyn McCrumbEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-04-01
ISBN: 0451202503
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: A Family Made of Stories and Ballads
Summary: 4 Stars
Using her own family history as a springboard, Sharyn McCrumb has woven a fictitious ballad, an American geneaology, and the Appalachian landscape into an engaging novel telling one story after another, switching perspectives and historical periods effortlessly. She is a writer of considerable skill.An elderly man is dying and talking to guests who are not there; his daughter, a famous country singer, is on a quest for a song she recalls hearing once in her childhood. That song's journey is traced all the way from a pirate ship anchored off of Scotland to contemporary America. To some, we may be hearing from too many ancestors by novel's end, but the song itself speaks of change, and we watch how the song changes, along with the American nation where it has arrived, and every story matters.
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