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The Hinterlands: A Mountain Tale in Three Parts | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Morgan
Publisher: John F. Blair Publisher
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 152224
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 335
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0895871785
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780895871787
ASIN: 0895871785
Publication Date: April 1999
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Product Description
Robert Morgan's first novel unfolds through the voices of three generations of Appalachian storytellers. In the first segment, adventurous teenager Petal runs off with a handsome homesteader in 1772. She tells of setting up housekeeping on the frontier, including the story of birthing her first baby while staving off a panther. In 1816, Petal's grandson uses a starved pig to track the best route for building a route down the mountain to market. In 1845, Petal's grandson constructs the turnpike down the mountain.
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making lives and dreams unfold.............. July 17, 2003
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is a marvelously warm and engaging story that is told in three parts about a family deep in the Southern mountains and how they made their lives and dreams unfold. The stories are said to be based on Robert Morgan's own family tales and they carry on the feel of the elders of the family telling the youngsters about life and living and it's true meaning. The dialogue is deceptively simple, creating a warm undercurrent to the intensity of the memories being shared. I adore Robert Morgan and his ability to create such wondrous everyday characters that reach beyond themselves to find love, faith and strength.
Three interconnected Stories of Early Life in Western NC July 17, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Imagine as a small child you sat down in the cozy little living room of your grandmother's home with your brothers and sisters and perhaps a few cousins and your grandma starting sharing stories about her early life. It's in the first person and she's telling about how she came to meet your grandpa and how they made a life together and what it was like opening the West. Now I don't meet the Far West but simply extending life beyond the coastal area of North Carolina inland toward the Mountains and into Tennessee in the 1700s. That's the delightful manner in which Robert Morgan shares information in three parts of the life and times of early settlers, and specific families, around the mountain communities of Asheville, NC (that's `ASH vul' for those not familiar with the area). There's several surprises so don't think you'll know what's coming. And the language is true to form using such words as painter when talking about a panther. An animal that has mostly been hunted into oblivion in most parts of the US. Each part is told by someone different, several generations apart but through little hooks within each story the reader is provided an opportunity to share in the joys and sorrows of each family. The book is easy reading and keeps your attention throughout and what I especially liked was the sharing of tidbits of information of what was like in those times. This is a book you won't put down once you start it.
 3 generations-people and panthers March 4, 2002
I laughed so much during the second part of this book. A young man runs 20 some miles through the forest holding onto a pig's tail with one hand and a hatchet in the other hand to chop a trail for the first road in the area. His adventures during that memorable day make great reading and a good laugh. Anyone who loves the south and mountain folks will appreciate this book from Robert Morgan.
 Chasing a pig named Sue January 4, 2001
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book, Robert Morgan's first published novel, is seriously flawed, but I hesitate to give it a really bad review because Morgan obviously understands the people and the mountains which are at the heart of the book. Through dead-on dialogue in the vernacular speech of mountain people, Morgan puts the reader in the hollows and coves of upstate South Carolina and western North Carolina. Along the way he provides plenty of local history, which he gathers from his family's own oral history and from exhaustive research. Unfortunately, each of the three sections of the novel has major problems. The first novella, "The Trace," is marred by some pathetically stereotyped depictions of the Cherokee Indians, who are portrayed as the aggressors in the struggle between themelves and the white settlers who moved into the area in the 1700s. "The Road" had potential to be a rollicking adventure story about a man who chases a pig through the mountains, but instead it becomes almost humorless, repetitive drudgery. "The Highway" is the least memorable of all the stories: an awkward attempt to immortalize the men who built the first road through the mountains. Although Morgan tries to foreshadow the ecological destruction which the roads will bring to the mountains, his narrative style instead depicts the natural world as hostile, needing to be tamed; in each story the main character is stalked almost constantly by a mountain lion (the word "painter" appears at least every few pages in the book, as if Morgan himself is proud that he knows this mountain mispronunciation). Surely this could have been accomplished in a more clever and creative manner. On the whole, I found this book disappointing. If you have not read Charles Frazier's "Cold Mountain," read that one instead.
 3 parts- declining in quality April 3, 2000
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
The first part is riveting, about a woman misled, then abandoned. The second is mediocre- interesting but monotonuos and long, the third part is throwaway and even though it is short, it is monotonous as well. There is not enough humor: a story about a man who chases a pig for 150 pages should be hilarious but it didn't even bring a smile to this reader's lips. Don't waste your time.
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