If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy O
If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O is a work by シャーリン・マクラム. テネシーの山間の町を舞台に、過去の歌と消えた少女の事件が重なっていくミステリー。土地の記憶と人びとの秘密が物語を動かす。
Work Information
If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O is an award-winning work read in the context of アパラチア.
If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O is a work by シャーリン・マクラム. テネシーの山間の町を舞台に、過去の歌と消えた少女の事件が重なっていくミステリー。土地の記憶と人びとの秘密が物語を動かす。
Book Information
- Publisher
- Fawcett
- Published
- 1991-08-13
- Pages
- 336 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 10.67 x 1.91 x 17.15 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780345369062
- ISBN-10
- 0345369068
- Price
- 2160 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery/Women Sleuths
Sheriff Spencer Arrowood keeps the peace in his small Tennessee town most of the time. Every once in a while, though, something goes wrong. When 1960s folksinger Peggy Muryan moves to town seeking solitude and a career comeback, and she receives a postcard with a threatening message, her idyll is shattered. Then a local girl who looks like Peggy vanishes without a trace. Although she was once famous, Peggy has no fondness for the old times. Those days are best left forgotten for Spencer Arrowood, too. But sometimes the past can't rest, and those who try to forget it are doomed to relive it....
Sharyn McCrumb is an internationally acclaimed New York Times bestselling author whose work has been honored with all five of the major awards in crime fiction (Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, and Nero)--and two Best Appalachian Novel awards. She is the creator of the esteemed Ballad Novel series, the first of which--If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O--was a New York Times Notable Book. The most recent installment in her satirical mystery series featuring forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson is If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him.... Ms. McCrumb lives in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains with her husband David and their two younger children, less than a hundred miles from the Smoky Mountain valley where her ancestors settled in 1790.
Reviews
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book 1
book 2 is even better and the series continues, old Appalachian lore next to modern life
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Five Stars
Like all Sharyn McCrumb's books a delight!
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learning
I love the stories this woman writes. she has taught me a lot about her mountains and their people. men also are sucked into her powerful lore. it's like entering a strange world. very addictive! Sharon.
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first in series
Very strong book with a slow plot. Set in the rural area of Tennessee it deals with the lives of people in a small town who have secrets, regrets, and the affect on families of the Vietnam war. Written in the early nineties it is somewhat dated now, but remains a wonderful examination of real people dealing with real life issues.
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I Returned for a Second Read
Have you ever attended a high school reunion? Do you remember when the horror of the war in Viet Nam was in our living rooms every night? The first time I read this book was about 12 years ago. That time I was reading a 'whodunit' set in the mountains of east Tennessee. I just wanted to find out who was the murderer. When I reread "If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O" this fall, I was able to enjoy the author's multiple layers of context and discovered a piece of literature. Sharyn McCrumb is not just a formula mystery writer; her characters are real, and the contrast between the beauty of the mountain setting and hurting victims in the story give the reader a feeling of being inside the pages with the characters, a close spectator. And Vernon Woolwine is iconic.
Related Literary Awards
- Macavity Awards Edition 5 (1991) ・award