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A 4 page book review that focuses on McCrumb's use of setting in this novel. While this novel is billed as a mystery/suspense novel, the reviewer argues that it is much more than that. McCrumb, basically, uses the conventions of the mystery genre in order to present a sympathetic portrayal of a region that is often denigrated, Appalachia. It is indicative of McCrumb's superb talent as a writer that can she can bring off this reversal, that is, making the action/suspense secondary to the setting. In so doing, McCrumb offers a novel that displays considerable insight into the nature and character of the people of this region while also providing the entertainment elements inherent in a mystery/suspense plot. No additional sources cited.
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mystery genre in order to present a sympathetic portrayal of a region that is often denigrated, Appalachia. It is indicative of McCrumbs superb talent as a writer that can she
can bring off this reversal, that is, making the action/suspense secondary to the setting. In so doing, McCrumb offers a novel that displays considerable insight into the nature and character
of the people of this region while also providing the entertainment elements inherent in a mystery/suspense plot. The focus of this novel is on a cross section of people
living in the Appalachian town of Hamelin. From characters such as Euell Pentland and the newly promoted police officer Martha Ayers, McCrumb finds venues for referring to the cultural stereotype
of the "hillbilly." However, while she may refer to this cultural bias, she always presents it in a manner that accords respect and dignity to the people whom society all
too frequently refers to as "white trash." For example, when McCrumb introduces Rita Pentland, Harm Sorleys ex-wife, it is made clear that Rita clearly realizes that her determinedly middle-class husband,
Euell, saved her from lower socioeconomic background. Rita is an avid gardener and she observes "If you looked real close at the flowers...--put your face right and stared at
those velvet petals...--they looked just the same as they had in Mamas old ditch garden up home" (McCrumb 39). Rather than being repelled by Ritas "white trash" past, the reader
finds her reminiscences to be poignant and sharply alive in contrast to the social restrictions that Euell imposes in an effort to divorce himself and his family from connection to
his wifes past. Just as McCrumb manages to associate the readers sympathies with Rita and her past, rather than her present, the reader quickly realizes that Hiram "Harm" Sorley,
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