The Scapegoat

In a novel about casual and heedless acts that often lead to unthinkable results, Mary Lee Settle traces the fall of a West Virginia town that was first made rich by coal, then corrupted and destroyed by it. Set in 1912, The Scapegoat propels the readers with astonishing immediacy to a fateful day in a coal miners' strike when distant relatives of Beulah dynasty, only dimly aware of their blood ties, face off in a dispute that escalates in the slaughter of an innocent man.    278 pages.The Scapegoat is the Book IV of Mary Lee Settle's The Beulah Quintet - a generational saga that traces 300 years about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom.

 
The Scapegoat
 
The Scapegoat
In a novel about casual and heedless acts that often lead to unthinkable results, Mary Lee Settle traces the fall of a West Virginia town that was first made rich by coal, then corrupted and destroyed by it. Set in 1912, The Scapegoat propels the readers with astonishing immediacy to a fateful day in a coal miners' strike when distant relatives of Beulah dynasty, only dimly aware of their blood ties, face off in a dispute that escalates in the slaughter of an innocent man.    278 pages.The Scapegoat is the Book IV of Mary Lee Settle's The Beulah Quintet - a generational saga that traces 300 years about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom.
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