The Emperors Children Picador Classic

Set in Georgia Paul Rundel is an intriguing story written by 20thcentury American author William Nathaniel Harben. He is best known for beautifully portraying the people of the mountains of Northern Georgia in his stories. Excerpt from FROM the window of her husbands shop in the mountainvillage of Grayson Cynthia Tye stood peering out on the Square. She was tall gaunt and thinso thin in fact that her fingers pricked by her needle and gnarled at the joints had a hold in energy only as she pressed them down on her contourless hips.