Readers should likewise grant themselves a luxurious length of time to read his work. Nightwoods, like its predecessors, contains passages of such beauty and lyricism that you can't help but want ...

NIGHTWOODS By Charles Frazier Random House, $26 259 pages Novelist Charles Frazier clearly agrees with Robert Frost’s description of woods as “lovely, dark and deep,” especially the dark and ...

The third Charles Frazier novel, Nightwoods, returns to the author’s familiar terrain of western North Carolina, which served as the backdrop for his two others, Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons.

(Here Nightwoods takes on a strong resemblance to the 1955 Robert Mitchum thriller The Night of the Hunter.) Throughout the book, the reader’s anxiety is kept high by a sort of ground bass of ...

Frazier’s new book, “Nightwoods,” takes place in the hilly landscape of the Appalachians, a vivid place of bent trees, black lakes and resigned mountains with names such as Hog Pen Gap and ...

This is the central theme of “Nightwoods.” The book may share some conventions with crime novels -- a murder victim, a criminal, suspense as the distance narrows between the hunter and the ...

Or maybe luxuriate is the wrong term. Nightwoods is unsettling stuff, tense and eerie and brutal. At the center of Frazier’s tale — set in Appalachia in the early 1960s — is Luce ...