CATALOOCHEE (a novel review)
January 25, 2008 BOOKS 1 CommentWAYNE CALDWELL’S first novel is one of those amazing flukes….the great Amercian classic novel that authors only dream about . He has incorporated his Appalachian roots into a story that spans generations. Their stories form a painting of a life long gone in an America that I knew little about.
It is authentic, unsentimental and yet full of passion for this lost community and their land. I had such mixed feelings for the government and the national parks program upon completion. I had no mixed feelings for the people in CATALOOCHEE. I loved them in all their humanity and wanted to read it all over again!