Nightwoods: A Novel Audio CD – Unabridged, September 27, 2011

from mscott1

Luce never considered herself mother material, but she ends up as the sole caregiver to her newly orphaned nephew and niece, a pair of emotionally-disturbed twins. In this beautifully-crafted novel, Frazier tells the story of three broken souls who find each other and work to heal themselves. It'...

from mrstreme

Charles Frazier is a dynamic writer. His sentences are beautifully crafted, conjuring up images that put the reader right into the story.  His first book, Cold Mountain, was nothing short of phenomenal. When his second book, Thirteen Moons, was released several years ago, I began reading it with ...

from mikedraper

"Nightwoods," tells the story of the hardships of living in Appalachia in North Carolina in the 1960s. Luce lives by herself in an old lodge that was built as a summer retreat. When the owner died, she took it upon herself to act as caretaker. She inherits her murdered sister's twins. She feels t...

from Cariola

Frazier is a master at decription, and he doesn't disappoint in this novel set in the Carolina backwoods in the 1960s. Luce, a single woman who has lived as caretaker of a deserted lodge for years, has taken in her murdered sister's two children. Frank and Delores don't speak, don't trust anyone,...

from Jim53

There is much to like about Nightwoods. Luce, the main character, is interesting and often admirable. She lives in an abandoned resort motel near a town on a lake in western North Carolina, earning a small stipend as a caretaker. After her sister is murdered, she takes in her traumatized niece an...