The Summer People John Foster West

978-1-887905-27-5 1-887905-27-8 $14.95 paperback 6 x 9 244 pages Fiction

In the summer of 1974, 24-year-old Anna DeVoss finds herself widowed and alone in the unfamiliar country of the North Carolina mountains. Anna is persuaded by her mother-in-law to spend some time alone in the DeVoss family's summer home in Watauga County. It is a summer of discovery for Anna a time of learning about the mountains and about herself.  The Summer People is the winner of the first Appalachian Consortium Fiction Award. about the author John Foster West was born in 1918 near Champion Post Office (Wilkes County) in the foothills of western North Carolina. West, the son of a tenant farmer, attended eight public schools, graduating from Morganton (N.C.) High School. He taught English and creative writing at Appalachian State University, in Boone, North Carolina. He is the author of Lift up Your Head, Tom Dooley, The Ballad of Tom Dula, and Time Was.