Old Rattler {collection}

by Sharyn McCrumb

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Here are three stories from Sharon McCrumb's collection Foggy Mountain Breakdown. Included are Old Rattler, the story of an old man from the backwoods and a desperate woman and her missing daughter; Among My Souvenirs, the tale of a young woman and a rock star on his way down; and The Matchmaker, a story about a warped and dangerous man, his unwitting date, and a voyeur. Unabridged.

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Sharyn McCrumb was born in Wilmington, North Carolina on February 26, 1948. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received an M.A. in English from Virginia Tech. Her novels include the Elizabeth MacPherson series and the Ballad series. St. Dale won a 2006 Library of Virginia Award and the Appalachian Writers show more Association Book of the Year Award. Ghost Riders won the Wilma Dykeman Award for Literature and the Audie Award for Best Recorded Book. She has received numerous awards for her work including the Sherwood Anderson Short Story Award, the Perry F. Kendig Award for Achievement in Literary Arts, the Chaffin Award for Southern Literature, and the Plattner Award for Short Story. In 2014, she received the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Southern Literature by North Carolina's Chowan University. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Old Rattler {collection}

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Fiction and Literature
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999

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