The Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb
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Book Summary Author: Sharyn McCrumb Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2002-04-01 ISBN: 0451202503 Number of pages: 416 Publisher: Signet |
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Book Reviews of the The Songcatcher
Customer Review: Fictionalized family tree story is a treat
Summary: 3 Stars
Sharyn McCrumb has given us a fictionalized version of her family tree, and it's a treat.
John Walker is dying and his housekeeper summons his estranged daughter home. His daughter, Linda, now a famous folksinger known as Lark, suffers an accident on the way home, however, and is stranded on a mountainside with faint chance of rescue. To see her through her ordeal, the 911 officer she managed to reach on her cell phone before the battery died promises to track down a folk song she heard when she was a child.
Interspersed with the events taking place in the present day is the story of Malcolm McCourry, a young Scots lad kidnapped by sailors in 1759, when he was nine years old. Although I was a bit confused the first time the story jumped back two hundred years, it didn't take me long to make the connection between Malcolm McCourry and John Walker, and I followed the subsequent years and generations with interest.
A quick read, and enjoyable.