The Hinterlands

Required reading for anyone who would know what it was to be a pioneer. Robert Morgan's lyric mountain language is equal to the epic sweep of history, to the grandeur of the land itself.

Here is the strong sound of direct American speech. This epic tale is a folk song of the Carolinas, alive in its particularities and as immense as our continent. Robert Morgan's mastery of strorytelling is magical.

Robert Morgan writes about hard work more convincingly than any other present-day writer I know. This is a book for pure enjoyment and for touching once more with love the child that has become our country.

A good storyteller is a magician <em>The Hinterlands</em> is told be three good storytellers, but the greatest magician of them all, of course, is Robert Morgan, who binds their tales into one family saga with a meaning beyond what the three tellers know.

Robert Morgan has long been one of this country's finest poets. Now he shows that his hand is just as steady in fiction. This story will stay with you long after you close the book.