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Hiwassee: A
Novel of the Civil War (Academy Chicago, 1996).
In this first novel, join the three Curtis brothers and friend Oliver Price in the Confederate Army of Tennessee and their families on the guerrilla-infested home front in the highlands of Western North Carolina. Prominent in the story is strong-willed Sarah Warren Curtis, who in a fever of patriotic spirit has urged her sons to take up arms, only to regret her enthusiasm when the war turns so vicious it not only spills the blood of her boys but exposes her to torture at the hands of marauders.
" ...Price brings an astonishing versimilitude to the narrative. The salty, exact language, tough-minded views, hard lives, and bloody deeds of these characters ring true throughout... Few recent novels have caught with such conviction the true texture and profound emotions of that conflict." Kirkus Reviews
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Freedom's
Altar (John F. Blair,
Publisher, 1999)The Curtises and Prices struggle to survive the dislocations of the war and Reconstruction as well as the determination of former slave Daniel McFee to win acceptance from his former masters as a free man worthy of respect. Sarah Curtis, embittered by the war’s cost, is again a leading character, as is Salina, wife of Sarah’s only surviving son, who must strive to rekindle in her husband a desire for life and love almost extinguished by the horrors of battle.
Winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association as the best fiction of the year written by a North Carolina author.
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The
Cock's Spur (John F. Blair,
Publisher, 2002)The Curtises, Prices
and Daniel McFee’s stepson Hamby wrestle with questions of duty in a
world made grim and pitiless by the hardships that follow the
overturning of the social and economic system of the South during
Reconstruction. Rebecca Curtis, Sarah’s daughter, is especially torn
between caring for her mentally disturbed brother and her wish to marry
and live a life of her own. She and Hamby McFee are strangely bound by
a compelling lifelong affinity based not in blood or flesh but on
loyalty, respect and unspoken love.
One of the Ten Outstanding Books of the Year and Story Teller of the Year by Independent Publisher Magazine; winner of the Clark Cox Historical Fiction Award of the NC Society of Historians.
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Where the
Water-Dogs Laughed (High Country, 2003)
A giant bear
embodying an ancient Cherokee myth that may be keeping the world in
balance defends the Southern Appalachian forests against rapacious
loggers. Its fate is entwined with that of Hamby McFee. The Prices,
Curtises and their neighbors endure a deadly typhoid epidemic while the
Will Price and Rebecca Curtis’s daughter Lillie plot to marry against
the opposition of Will’s cruel foster father. Hamby McFee brings his
relationship with the departed Rebecca full circle in a final bonding
with Lillie.
Winner, Clark Cox Award;
First Finalist, Independent Book Award; Nominee, Sir Walter Raleigh
Award, Appalachian Book of the Year, Weatherford Award of the
Appalachian Studies Association.