Black Mountain Breakdown - Hardcover

Smith, Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399125310 ISBN 13: 9780399125317

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 1980

Synopsis

Crystal Spangler struggles throughout her life to find a role that fits her best, but after living as a poet, a beauty queen, a schoolteacher, and a political wife, she returns home to Black Rock Mountain

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

gler lives in rural Appalachia. She's the apple of her mother's eye -- not yet beautiful, but she will be. She's the most popular girl at Black Rock High. She makes cheerleader, gets good grades, and is elected beauty queen. Crystal discovers God, goes to college, and falls in love. When she comes home, she's disheveled and confused. Crystal becomes a wealthy politician's wife. But there's something calling her, drawing her back to where it all began, in the shadow of Black Mountain . . .
From the Paperback edition.

About the Author:

Lee Smith is the author of The Last Girls, Oral History, Fair and Tender Ladies, and other novels, and a recent story collection, Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger. She has won the O. Henry Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and the Southern Book Critics Circle Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0399125310
• ISBN 13: 9780399125317
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228