Publisher's Synopsis
Chronicling the round of seasons in Roanoke Valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the author displays a wide knowledge of her small - yet universal - world. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 1974.
About the Publisher
Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.
