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100 1 $aEhle, John,$d1925-
245 14 $aThe land breakers /$cJohn Ehle ; introduction by Linda Spalding.
264 1 $aNew York :$bNew York Review Books,$c2014.
264 4 $c©1964
300 $a1 online resource.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $acomputer$bn$2rdamedia
338 $aonline resource$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aNew York Review Books classics
520 $a"First published fifty years ago in 1964 to great acclaim, The Land Breakers is John Ehle's best-known work of historical fiction, chronicling the hard-won settlement of southern Appalachia. A cinematic saga spanning the Revolutionary War years of 1779 to 1784, The Land Breakers recounts in spare, unflinching prose the challenges, setbacks, and small triumphs of the defiant men and women who were drawn to the wilderness of provincial North Carolina. Eager for opportunity in a land where the easy country had been claimed, Ehle's unforgettable characters stake their lives on the settlement of the unnamed high mountain territory. Strong and silent Mooney Wright is the first to make his way into the forbidding mountains. Others steadily follow: the cruel patriarch Tinkler Harrison, his daughter Lorry, the free-spirited Mina Plover. The Land Breakers is a paean to man's capacity for work, and Ehle imbues the hardworking men and women of his book--the land breakers of this young country--with nobility"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"First published fifty years ago in 1964 to great acclaim, The Land Breakers is John Ehle's best-known work of historical fiction, chronicling the hard-won settlement of southern Appalachia. A cinematic saga spanning the Revolutionary War years of 1779 to 1784, The Land Breakers recounts in spare, unflinching prose the challenges, setbacks, and small triumphs of the defiant men and women who were drawn to the wilderness of provincial North Carolina. Eager for opportunity in a land where the easy country had been claimed, Ehle's unforgettable characters stake their lives on the settlement of the unnamed high mountain territory. Strong and silent Mooney Wright is the first to make his way into the forbidding mountains. Others steadily follow: the cruel patriarch Tinkler Harrison, his daughter Lorry, the free-spirited Mina Plover. The Land Breakers is a paean to man's capacity for work, and Ehle imbues the hardworking men and women of his book--the land breakers of this young country--with nobility. "--$cProvided by publisher.
588 $aDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
651 0 $aAppalachian Region, Southern$vFiction.
651 0 $aNorth Carolina$xHistory$y1775-1865$vFiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Historical.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Romance / Regency.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Family Life.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
776 08 $iPrint version:$aEhle, John, 1925-$tLand breakers$dNew York : New York Review Books, 2014$z9781590177631$w(DLC) 2014013613
856 40 $3Cover image$u9781590177631.jpg