02138cam a2200301 4500 298875634 TxAuBib 20170713120000.0 960214s1996||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 96011135 9780525940111 acid-free paper 0525940111 acid-free paper TxAuBib McCrumb, Sharyn, 1948- The Rosewood Casket [TP] / Sharyn McCrumb. New York : Dutton, 1996. 303 p. ; 24 cm. Ballad novel, A ; 4 "Eloquent, lyrical, and richly textured . . . There is no one quite like [McCrumb] among present-day writers. No one better either." ―San Diego Union-Tribune With a career spanning decades, and superlatives from reviewers nationwide--whose bestselling novels have been named Notable Books by the New York Times and the LA Times--this is one of Sharyn McCrumb's most cherished novels. The stage is set for family drama when Randall Stargill lies dying on his southern Appalachian farm, and his four sons come home to build him a coffin made from the special cache of rosewood he has saved for this purpose. Meanwhile, mountain wisewoman, Nora Bonesteel, prepares another box―to be buried with him. Among them, a real estate developer is hovering over the family's farm bringing secrets and tensions to the surface. In a style both lyrical and beautifully detailed, with a narrative that flows from Native American lore and the burnished tales of Daniel Boone―up to the sharpest, and keenly realized landscapes of Appalachia today, The Rosewood Casket is a novel as hauntingly beautiful as the mountains that gave it charge--and a stunning addition to our collection of McCrumb Ballad novels. 20170713. Farm life Fiction. Women Appalachian Region, Southern Fiction. Mountain life Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Appalachian Region, Southern Fiction. Domestic fiction. A Ballad novel ; 4.