The Songcatcher: A Novel Hardcover – June 1, 2001
by Sharyn McCrumb  (Author)
 
Folksinger Lark McCourry retraces the history of a family song, which she had heard from her North Carolina relatives as a child, back to eighteenth-century Scotland to young Malcolm MacQuarry, kidnapped and sent to the American colonies, where he eventually became a lawyer and fought in the American Revolution. 60,000 first printing.
 
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