Nightwoods by Charles Frazier

Nightwoods by Charles Frazier

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
Charles Frazier, the acclaimed author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons, returns with a dazzling novel set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s. With his brilliant portrait of Luce, a young woman who inherits her murdered sister's troubled twins, Frazier has created his most memorable heroine. Before the children, Luce was content with the reimbursements of the rich Appalachian landscape, choosing to live apart from the small community around her. But the coming of the children changes everything, cracking open her solitary life in difficult, hopeful, dangerous ways. In a lean, tight narrative, Nightwoods resonates with the timelessness of a great work of art.
 
"Impossible to shake."--Entertainment Weekly
 
"Fantastic."--The Washington Post
 
"Astute and compassionate."--The Boston Globe

Charles Frazier was born in 1950 in Caroline-du-Nord, where he has always lived with his family. He becomes a professor at Caroline-du-Nord University after completing his studies in literature and winning awards. Return to Cold Mountain is based on the story of his arrière-arrière-grand-oncle and took five years of research into regional traditions, music, popular stories, military records, and late-nineteenth-century sudist journals. It was published in ten countries and won the National Book Prize in 1997.