Hiwassee

by Charles F. Price

Book Overview

This Stunning Novel is set near the end of the Civil War in the mountainous farm country of North Carolina--bordering on the Hiwassee River--a region where neighbor turned on neighbor and helpless... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897334299
• ISBN13: 9780897334297
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Hiwassee

Wonderful book. To read your ancestor's names and places you've know all your life is a thrill.

A gem of a novel

Hiwassee is a gem of a novel set during the Civil War in the mountains of North Carolina where undisciplined regiments, home guard, and bands of renegades terrorize people who have little to gain and everything to lose if trust is misplaced. Major characters are introduced in this novel, showing their best and worst impulses during a time of trial and tribulation, but the best is yet to come when they are fleshed out in the three novels that follow: Freedom's Altar, The Cock's Spur, and Where the Water-Dogs Laughed. Price's novels are textured with all the elements of good historical fiction overlaid with his own remarkable style and voice, and the result is a body of work that is beautiful and lyrical. I recommend you treat yourself to a real feast by reading all four novels in the order they were written.

Riviting personalities and gritty reality of Civil War

This book grabs your interest from the beginning and leads one into caring about each of the characters and what they suffer as a result of the Civil War as experienced by families living in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. It is a rare view of what took place because of deserters from both sides and their raids of family farms. It also gives a more realistic picture of the thoughts and actions of the common soldier than is usually found.

Descriptive of both battle and character - loved it!

This book was especially interesting to me since I live in the area where this story took place. It was fascinating to see how each family dealt with war, family upset, loss and neighbor against neighbor. This is a book that should be read by every student in America. Everyone can relate to the turmoil and tragedy of the Civil War (or as they say down here - The War of Northern Aggression) on a personal level through the skillful writing of this author. Tremendous first book!