| International Standard Book Number |
9780312388874 (paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
031238887X (paperback)
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| Personal Name |
McCrumb, Sharyn, 1948- author.
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| Title Statement |
The ballad of Frankie Silver : Ballad novels bk. 5 / Sharyn McCrumb.
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| Edition Statement |
First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2013.
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| Physical Description |
400 pages ; 22 cm.
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| Series Statement |
Ballad novels ; bk. 05
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| General Note |
"Thomas Dunne books."
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| General Note |
Includes discussion questions.
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| General Note |
Originally published: New York : Dutton, 1998.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-398).
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| Summary, Etc. |
Set in the Appalachian wilderness and blending legends and folklore with high suspense, this stellar novel, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, is considered one of McCrumb's crowning achievements. In 1833 Frankie Silver was an eighteen-year-old girl convicted of murder in Burke County, North Carolina. Through a detailed investigation, the local sheriff, and soon all the townsfolk, discover reason to question her guilt---but the wheels of justice were mercilessly unstoppable, and she was hanged. Now, more than a century later, another woman is convicted of murder in the lush hills of Tennessee. Her life is in the hands of Spencer Arrowood, a man who begins to discover that the convictions of these two women have deep and haunting parallels. Although Frankie's fate cannot be changed, there is still time to alter the fate of another innocent woman. In a voice that could only be Sharyn McCrumb's, the worlds of these two murders, these two women, intersect in this densely plotted and lyrical novel?and characters, generations, and history are breathlessly painted against an Appalachian canvas.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Death row inmates Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women murderers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mountain life Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sheriffs Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Appalachian Region, Southern Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Appalachian Trail Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Tennessee Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Mystery fiction
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