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The rosewood casket, Sharyn McCrumb

Label
The rosewood casket, Sharyn McCrumb
Language
eng
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
The rosewood casket
Medium
electronic resource
Responsibility statement
Sharyn McCrumb
Series statement
Ballad, bk. 4
Summary
Award-winning Southern writer Sharyn McCrumb is a best-selling author who's won widespread critical acclaim for her Appalachian Ballad novels. In The Rosewood Casket, a farmer named Randall Stargill has fallen into a coma. As his family gathers to prepare for the inevitable, his four sons work on a handmade casket and their wives sew a quilt to line it. Complications arise, however, when clairvoyant neighbor Nora Bonesteel brings her own disturbing contribution to the coffin: a small box containing a child's skeleton
Target audience
adult
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