Black Mountain Breakdown - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345013344 ISBN 13: 9780345013347

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Crystal Spangler lives in rural Appalachia. She's the apple of her mother's eye -- not yet beautiful, but she will be. She's the most popular girl at Black Rock High. She makes cheerleader, gets good grades, and is elected beauty queen. Crystal discovers God, goes to college, and falls in love. When she comes home, she's disheveled and confused. Crystal becomes a wealthy politician's wife. But there's something calling her, drawing her back to where it all began, in the shadow of Black Mountain . . .

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Review:

""Black Mountain Breakdown" is like a country song. It is true and real; it is loving and sad."---Annie Dillard

"The closest thing to reading this would be reading Madame Bovary while listening to Loretta Lynn." -- Roy Blount, Jr.

"Black Mountain Breakdown is like a country song. It is true and real; it is loving and sad." -- Annie Dillard

About the Author:

Lee Smith is the author of The Last Girls, Oral History, Fair and Tender Ladies, and other novels, and a recent story collection, Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger. She has won the O. Henry Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and the Southern Book Critics Circle Award.

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• ISBN 10: 0345013344
• ISBN 13: 9780345013347
• Einband: Mass Market Paperback