Description
Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic. . . . She plucks the mysteries from people's lives and works these dark narrative threads into Appalachian legends older than the hills. Like every true storyteller, she has the Sight.--The New York Times Book Review
In 1935, a beautiful young schoolteacher is accused of murdering her coal-miner father ina Virginia mountain community. National journalists descend on Wise County, intent upon exonerating the defendant, and on stereotyping the mountain community to satisfy their Depression-era readers.
But local cub reporter Carl Jennings writes what he sees: an ordinary town and a defendant who is probably guilty. The novel resonates with the present: an economic depression; a deadly Japanese earthquake; the rise of political fanatics; and a media culture turning news stories into soap operas for the diversion of the masses. A literary tour de force, The Devil Amongst the Lawyers continues the Ballard saga by examining social issues that go well beyond the fate of one defendant. It is a testament to Sharyn McCrumb's lyrical and poetic writing about the mountain South.
Author: Sharyn McCrumb
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 06/07/2011
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.59w x 0.89d
ISBN13: 9780312573621
ISBN10: 0312573626
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Historical
About the Author
Sharyn McCrumb is the author of The Ballad of Frankie Silver, She Walks These Hills, and many other award-winning novels. Her books have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. She was named a Virginia Woman of History for achievement in literature in 2008. She lives and writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge, less than a hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790 in the Smoky Mountains that divide North Carolina and Tennessee
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