Book Overview
While sitting in her 150-year-old cabin in the mountains of North Carolina at the beginning of the Depression, Collie Wright sees furtive figures emerging from the woods on a chilly, near-winter evening. The figures turn out to be clockmaker Wayland Jackson, a widower on his way to Tennessee to seek work, and his 12-year-old daughter, Paula. Wayland's truck has broken down, and the two have lost their way. Collie allows them to stay the night, and Jackson is immediately taken with her. But she is an unmarried woman with a newborn baby and dark secrets, the object of tawdry talk although her family is the most prominent in the community. Jackson stays to become a clock repairman, to build a clock tower for the community -- and to court Collie. But the father of Collie's child, a wild young man from a mountain clan long in conflict with her family, soon returns to claim his rights, and a violent showdown forces Collie into the most painful decision of her life. The Winter People became a feature film starring Kurt Russell, Lloyd Bridges, and Kelly McGillis.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0060149302
ISBN13:9780060149307
Release Date:January 1982
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.89 lbs.
Customer Reviews
1 rating
A great novel that should be better known!
Published by gmcm , 8 months ago
Ehle's Appalachian novels are wonderful. The Winter People is a gripping story of family and loyalty and place that I can't begin to summarize. This is on my shelf of my all-time favorite novels.
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