Requiem by Fire

Name: Requiem by Fire
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Wayne Caldwell
ISBN: 9781449838188

Author: Wayne Caldwell

Narrator: Scott Sowers

Unabridged: 12 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/08/2010

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Wayne Caldwell won extensive critical praise for his debut novel Cataloochee. Set in the same Appalachian locale, Requiem by Fire strikes chords of humor, strife and human endurance with a 1920s tale populated by vivid Southern characters. When the federal government attempts to force residents of a farming community to sell their land, lives are torn asunder by the prospect of change. "Wayne Caldwell has restored to us a lost America-and made us fall in love with its people all over again."-Jon Clinch, author of Finn

Reviews

Goodreads review by Terry on July 28, 2022

Since I gave Cataloochee a rating of 4.5, i will rate the sequel Requiem by Fire at 4.4, just slightly less enjoyable than the first one. In Requiem by Fire we find subsequent generations of the same families previously introduced to us and they are dealing with the sad fact that their homes and home......more

Goodreads review by Shomeret on June 22, 2011

A large proportion of the people who populated the Smoky Mountain area were tenant farmers in Britain who had been dispossessed of their land to make room for the grazing of sheep. In America they made sure that the land was theirs thinking that it wouldn't ever be taken away from them or their desc......more

Goodreads review by Lori on October 27, 2024

Requiem by Fire left me all choked up with feeling. The Great Smokey Mountains National Park is being born, a great gift to all Americans to love and enjoy. Hundreds of people who made their home on the mountain found their homes within the park bounderies. Many of the folks from the first book Cata......more