Woodrow's Trumpet

Everybody in Oak Hills, North Carolina, knew that Woodrow Bunce was not quite right, but he was pure of heart. His life was simple. He wanted nothing more than to raise watermelons, continue his generous ways & hunt with his dogs on the nearby wooded ridges. Even after he fell in with Nadean Tucker, a black, drug-addicted prostitute who had returned home from Washington, D.C., too sick & oppressed to care, he might have continued his uncomplicated life in the shabby farmhouse he had inherited. But the nearby hills & fields were being cut into subdivisions & were filling with affluent, well-educated newcomers who could never understand Woodrow & Nadean. The clash that followed cuts to the heart of the conflict between New South & Old, false values & true. "The best book yet written about the New South...truly funny & truly tragic," says novelist Lee Smith. "Honest like a dirt road," said the News & Observer of Raleigh. "A brilliant mirror by which to see ourselves, darkly."McLaurin, Tim is the author of 'Woodrow's Trumpet', published 1997 under ISBN 9781878086259 and ISBN 1878086251.