King's Mountain

Name: King's Mountain
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Sharyn McCrumb
ISBN: 9781501992445

Author: Sharyn McCrumb

Series: Ballad #10

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte, Rick Holmes, Julia Gibson

Unabridged: 10 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/24/2013

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Sharyn McCrumb is the New York Times bestselling author of the Ballad novels, which celebrate the rich history of Appalachia. An elegant saga set against the American Revolution, King' s Mountain features John Sevier and his legendary Carolina Overmountain Men, who find themselves defending their families and farms against the troops of a haughty British major.

About Sharyn McCrumb

Sharyn McCrumb is the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Ballad novels. She has received numerous honors for her work, including the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Southern Literature, the AWA Book of the Year, and Notable Books in both The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. She was also named a Virginia Woman of History for Achievement in Literature. She lives and writes in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, fewer than one hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joyce on March 15, 2014

Although this book is designated as a continuation of McCrumb's rich "ballad" series, it departs in many ways from the other ballad novels. It is a rich and informative coup in historical writing, bringing dead history to life, as do McCrumb's other novels. However, it lacks the connectors between p......more

Goodreads review by Diana on April 30, 2014

Early in this historical Fiction about the King's Mountain battle in the Revolutionary War A seasoned veteran tell a young boy that war is as much about walking and waiting and sleeping rough as it is adventure and excitement. That would be a fairly good description of this book.It is 326 pages in l......more

Goodreads review by Arlene on May 01, 2014

I have always enjoyed Ms McCrumb's writing. She knows the people of Appalachia and writes about them with pride and warmth. I was especially interested in this book as one of my North Carolina ancestors was an Over Mountain man. I have always been proud of that line of my family but more so today af......more

Goodreads review by Anastacia on July 23, 2014

I've read about 6 Sharyn McCrumb books, and I must say, this is my favorite one. I love history, and my husband's family comes from the part of NC where this is set, so I found it especially interesting. It is definitely more history than fiction, but she writes it very well and she drew me into the......more

Goodreads review by Lon on July 04, 2017

The book started out promising with the struggles of life in the back country of N. Carolina as told by John Sevier and Virginia Sal. The book then went flat and I felt like I was on a long distance march to get to the end of the book.......more