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Books by John Ehle

The Land Breakers

This opus about the settling of the Blue Ridge Mountains is, quite simply, one of the most important contributions to Appalachian fiction ever written. John Ehle portrays a terrain that has long fascinated the American imagination and its settlers with epic attention to detail, making the novel both a critical document of Appalachian history as well as a singular literary portrait of human fortitude.

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