Fallen Land, Taylor Brown
Fallen Land, Taylor Brown
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Fallen Land
A Novel

Author: Taylor Brown

Narrator: Richard Poe

Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/12/2016


Synopsis

"Poe deftly guides this engaging story, describing the band of marauding former soldiers as they pillage the countryside. Poe's portrayal of the lovely but tragic Ava is most affecting. He uses pacing and pauses to build tension during showdowns and softens his delivery in the tender scenes between the two lovers." — AudioFile Magazine

Fallen Land is Taylor Brown's debut audiobook, set in the final year of the Civil War, as a young couple on horseback flees a dangerous band of marauders who seek a bounty reward.

Callum, a seasoned horse thief at fifteen years old, came to America from his native Ireland as an orphan. Ava, her father and brother lost to the war, hides in her crumbling home until Callum determines to rescue her from the bands of hungry soldiers pillaging the land, leaving destruction in their wake. Ava and Callum have only each other in the world and their remarkable horse, Reiver, who carries them through the destruction that is the South.

Pursued relentlessly by a murderous slave hunter, tracking dogs, and ruthless ex-partisan rangers, the couple race through a beautiful but ruined land, surviving on food they glean from abandoned farms and the occasional kindness of strangers. In the end, as they intersect with the scorching destruction of Sherman's March, the couple seek a safe haven where they can make a home and begin to rebuild their lives.

Dramatic and thrillingly narrated, Fallen Land is a love story at its core. With an uncanny eye for glimpses of beauty in a ravaged landscape, award-winning young author Taylor Brown delivers an unusually assured debut.

About Taylor Brown

TAYLOR BROWN grew up on the Georgia coast. He has lived in Buenos Aires, San Francisco, and the mountains of western North Carolina. He is the recipient of the Montana Prize in Fiction and a finalist for the Southern Book Prize. His novels include Fallen Land, The River of Kings, Gods of Howl Mountain, Pride of Eden, and Wingwalkers. He lives in Savannah, Georgia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on June 25, 2018

this book takes place at the very end of the civil war*, where disorganized and factionless gangs of opportunistic men took advantage of the confusion and lawlessness of war's aftermath to settle scores and take for themselves whatever hadn't already been destroyed. which is the kind of story i real......more

Goodreads review by Angela M on November 21, 2015

Sometimes for me it's all about the writing . From the first sentence the precise language and the perfect descriptions defy you to see anything other than what Taylor Brown hopes for you to see. I read the first page three times and then reread some other paragraphs just because. I decided to read......more

Goodreads review by Karen on July 21, 2019

Callum and Ava, 15 and 17 yrs old, are on the run towards the end of The Civil War ..there is a bounty on Callum’s head for a suspected murder while rescuing Ava from the hands of a band of marauders. These were violent times and they faced such struggles to try and survive. What a story and journey!......more