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Mary Lee Settle
In this award-winning work of fiction, Mary Lee Settle reveals new life springing forth from death and change while establishing blood as the only tie that endures.
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The story of the coming-of-age of Johnny Church, an English youngster who seeks emancipation from a multitude of emotional, political and religious prisons. Johnny’s journey ends in a prison of…
Before the Civil War, Peregrine Catlett considers freeing his slaves but believes he can only retain his plantation by slave labour. His son, Johnny, returns to his father’s farm but…
Set in 1912, The Scapegoat propels readers towards a fateful day in a coal miners’ strike when distant relatives of the Beulah dynasty, only dimly aware of their blood ties…
In this narrative of doomed love, Mary Lee Settle tells of a triangular affair set in the small town of Canona, West Virginia, revealing the mores of Canona’s closed, upper-class…
After a twenty-year absence, Mary Lee Settle returns to the land she calls the happiest home she has ever known. A land of intersecting continents, cultures, and contradictions, Turkey beckons…
One of Johnny Church’s descendants, Jonathan Lacey, settles in Virginia, where he battles Native Americans and builds a flourishing estate named Beulah. The novel closes before the Revolutionary War, with…
Together they view the twentieth century’s strangest event–the landing on the moon–a happening which seems to presage an even more displaced future.
Pulbished together for the first time, these novels offer compelling tales as well as a sample of Settle’s early writing.
Set in 1936, The Clam Shell continues the mesmerizing story Settle began in The Love Eaters.
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In 1978 Hannah McKarkle returns to her hometown of Canona, West Virginia, where she sets out to remove the mystery that has surrounded her brother’s murder for over 20 years…
Novelist Mary Lee Settle’s autobiography portrays inherited choices, old habits and quarrels, old disguises and the river that formed the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia and the mores of her…
The story of approaching civil war in England is told through the eyes of Roger Williams, who was taken from obscurity to clerk for the celebrated English jurist Sir Edward…
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Winner of a National Book Award for fiction and author of an acclaimed book of travel and history on Turkey, Settle follows the epic struggles in Spanish history and examines…
Brian C. Rosenberg
Mary Lee Settle’s fiction has for too long been misperceived. Brian Rosenberg’s thorough analysis of her Beulah<\em> quintet will allow a larger audience to understand the nature and scope of…
Two years before her death, Mary Lee Settle sat down to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for fifty years . This memoir picks…
