The killing ground

Mary Lee Settle

first published 1982 University of South Carolina Press, 1996 385 pages

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With The Killing Ground Mary Lee Settle completes her grand design for The Beulah Quintet, an unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom. The novel begins in 1978 with the return of Hannah McKarkle to her hometown of Canona, West Virginia, from which she set out nearly two decades before to remove the shroud of mystery surrounding her brother's...

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The killing ground edition · 1996 · University of South Carolina Press · 385 pages
The killing ground. edition · 1989 · Collier Macmillan · 352 pages
The killing ground edition · 1983 · Bantam Books · 336 pages · 9780553234398
The killing ground edition · 1982 · Farrar, Straus, Giroux · 385 pages
Killing Ground edition · 1982 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9780374181093

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