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Celebration chronicles the love story of a widowed American anthropologist and a Scottish geologist as well as the intertwining tales of the couple's eccentric circle of friends, which include…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533824/Blood-Tie
1978 National Book Award for Fiction • "Settle has done a remarkable job of capturing a culture that is, in a sense, the most important character in her book."—New York Times

In a novel…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533825/The-Love-Eaters-and-the-Kiss-of-Kin-dual-edition
The novel that launched Settle's outstanding career, The Love Eaters is an acid satire of bedroom and community tragedy. A wealthy, small-town theatrical group finds itself at the direction of…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533826/The-Clam-Shell
Searching for an escape from mediocrity, the young heroine of The Clam Shell leaves her hometown of Canona, West Virginia, and enters a Southern women's college. She is not destined for a safe…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533842/Prisons
An unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture,class, identity, and the meaning of freedom

Prisons, the first volume of The Beulah Quintet—Mary Lee Settle's unfo…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533843/O-Beulah-Land
O Beulah Land, the second volume of The Beulah Quintet—Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom—is…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533844/Know-Nothing
An unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture,class, identity, and the meaning of freedom

Set in the decades preceding the Civil War, Know Nothing tells the tra…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533845/The-Scapegoat
An unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture,class, identity, and the meaning of freedom

In a novel about casual and heedless acts that often lead to unthinkab…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533846/The-Killing-Ground
An unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture,class, identity, and the meaning of freedom

The Killing Ground begins in 1978 with the return of Hannah McKarkle t…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1533866/Charley-Bland
A dissection of family existence at its most corrosive

In this moving and brilliant narrative of doomed love, Mary Lee Settle tells of a triangular affair set in the small town of Canon…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700