The Hawk's Done Gone: And Other Stories

by Mildred Haun

Book Overview

The stores of Mildred Haun, collected here for the first time, are unique in the annals of American literature. Set in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee and covering a span of family history from the Civil War to 1940, these tales achieve the forceful, intractable simplicity of the traditional ballads. But one also finds in these twenty-three stories an overview of the forces of nature, the paradoxes inherent in the human condition, and a full...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826512135
• ISBN13: 9780826512130
• Release Date: October 1968
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.7"