Bloodroot
  • Published:
    Jan-2010 (Hardcover)
    Jan-2011 (Paperback)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Pages:
    291
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Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies -- of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss -- that haunt one family across the generations, from the Great Depression to today.

The novel is told in a kaleidoscope of seamlessly woven voices and centers around an incendiary romance that consumes everyone in its path: Myra Lamb, a wild young girl with mysterious, haint blue eyes who grows up on remote Bloodroot Mountain; her grandmother Byrdie Lamb, who protects Myra fiercely and passes down "the touch" that bewitches people and animals alike; the neighbor boy who longs for Myra yet is destined never to have her; the twin children Myra is forced to abandon but who never forget their mother's deep love; and John Odom, the man who tries to tame Myra and meets with shocking, violent disaster. Against the backdrop of a beautiful but often unforgiving country, these lives come together -- only to be torn apart -- as a dark, riveting mystery unfolds.

With grace and unflinching verisimilitude, Amy Greene brings her native Appalachia -- and the faith and fury of its people -- to rich and vivid life. Here is a spellbinding tour de force that announces a dazzlingly fresh, natural-born storyteller in our midst.
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EDITIONS
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    • Jan-2011
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0307390578
    • ISBN13: 9780307390578
    • First Edition
    • Jan-2010
    • Knopf
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0307269868
    • ISBN13: 9780307269867
    •  
    • Jan-2010
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307593088
    • ISBN13: 9780307593085
    •  
    • Dec-2009
    • Random House Audio
    • Audible
    •  
    • Jan-2010
    • Random House Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 0307713237
    • ISBN13: 9780307713230
    •  
    • Jan-2010
    • Books on Tape
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 0307713253
    • ISBN13: 9780307713254
    •  
    • Apr-2010
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1410425010
    • ISBN13: 9781410425010
    • Large Print
    •  
    • Jan-2011
    • Large Print Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 159413457X
    • ISBN13: 9781594134579
    • Large Print



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