"In The Road John Ehle's skill as a storyteller brings an early episode of road building in the North Carolina mountains to rich and vivid life. Hardship and humor, suffering and dreams are the balance for survival in a landscape that makes harsh demands on its intruders. Ehle lets us experience this place, people, and past in a fully realized novel."--Wilma Dykeman "The Road is a strong novel by one of our most distinguished authors. Muscular, vivid, and pungent, it is broad in historical scope and profound in its human ...
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"In The Road John Ehle's skill as a storyteller brings an early episode of road building in the North Carolina mountains to rich and vivid life. Hardship and humor, suffering and dreams are the balance for survival in a landscape that makes harsh demands on its intruders. Ehle lets us experience this place, people, and past in a fully realized novel."--Wilma Dykeman "The Road is a strong novel by one of our most distinguished authors. Muscular, vivid, and pungent, it is broad in historical scope and profound in its human sympathies. We welcome its return with warm pleasure."--Fred Chappell Originally published in 1967, The Road is epic historical fiction at its best. At the novel's center is Weatherby Wright, a railroad builder who launches an ambitious plan to link the highlands of western North Carolina with the East. As a native of the region, Wright knows what his railway will mean to the impoverished settlers. But to accomplish his grand undertaking he must conquer Sow Mountain, "a massive monolith of earth, rock, vegetation and water, an elaborate series of ridges which built on one another to the top." Wright's struggle to construct the railroad--which requires tall trestles crossing deep ravines and seven tunnels blasted through shale and granite--proves to be much more than an engineering challenge. There is opposition from a child evangelist, who preaches that the railroad is the work of the devil, and there is a serious lack of funds, which forces Wright to use convict labor. How Wright confronts these challenges and how the mountain people respond to the changes the railroad brings to their lives make for powerfully compelling reading. The Author: A native of Asheville, North Carolina, John Ehle has written seventeen novels and works of nonfiction. His books include The Land Breakers, The Journey of August King, The Winter People, and Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation. Among the honors he has received are the Lillian Smith Prize and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Award.
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Add this copy of The Road (Appalachian Echoes Fiction) to cart. $15.56, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Univ Tennessee Press.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
Add this copy of The Road (Appalachian Echos) to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by Harry Alter Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sylva, NC, UNITED STATES.
Add this copy of The Road to cart. $34.92, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published by Avon.
Add this copy of The Road to cart. $37.00, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published by Harpercollins.
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First edition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfections commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Library accoutrements in the usual locales; interior pages absent any extraneous marks. Dust jacket laminated by enlightened librarians. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Add this copy of The Road (Appalachian Echoes Fiction) to cart. $48.63, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Univ Tennessee Press.
Add this copy of The Road to cart. $225.00, very good condition, Sold by Old New York Book Shop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Atlanta, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Harper & Row.
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Very good in good + jacket. New York: Harper & Row, (1967). 401pp, 8vo. First Edition. Signed by Ehle and inscribed to Jargon Society founder Jonathan Williams on ffep, "For Jonathan Williams, with respect for his own writing and for him. John Ehle. Winston-Salem Jan. 4, 1967." A very good copy in a good jacket. Black and blue cloth boards have wear to extremities, upper edge of back board discolored from moisture stain, text block foxed and lightly soiled. Jacket has moisture stain causing discoloration on upper back edge, and a smaller one on lower back corner that does not affect boards.
Add this copy of The Road to cart. $300.00, very good condition, Sold by Old New York Book Shop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Atlanta, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Harper and Row Publishers.
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Very good + in very good + jacket. 401p, octavo. First Edition, L-Q. A very good + copy in a very good + dust jacket. Jacket has two closed tears at spine end and on upper edge of front panel. Cloth on spine end has small tears. Nice inscription from author on first free end paper, "For B. E. Young, with appreciation for his help in gathering the research information on which this story is based. John Ehle..."
