Whose Woods These Are (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780881467611)

WHOSE WOODS THESE ARE takes place on Thanksgiving Day in a deep river bottom in a mythical Piedmont county, Morgan, South Carolina. The story is told in four perspectives on the possible death and certain disappearance of Old Doc, an 85-year-old land owner/deer hunter and centers on a contested property boundary shared with the resident Mitchell family who have lived on the land since colonial times. Four intricately layered stories spool out as Thanksgiving Day progresses: that of Jae Mitchell, the young hunter with deep connections to the land; deputy sheriff Caddy Galligher, Jae's former girlfriend and mother of his young child; Daren Pagano, Old Doc's scheming real estate agent step son; and Sheriff Howard, near retirement, a hunting buddy of Old Doc who believes what his deputy Caddy tells him, that Jae Mitchell wouldn't kill anybody. All have their stakes in what happened in the river bottom and the four stories turn into a search for the truth in the deep woods.

Author: John Lane
ISBN-10: 0881467618
ISBN-13: 9780881467611
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/03/2020
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.80d