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On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon - Kaye Gibbons
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
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Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate is a woman at war with herself. Born to privilege on a James River plantation, she grows up increasingly aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of slavery.As she tells her story in 1900, she is... show more
Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate is a woman at war with herself. Born to privilege on a James River plantation, she grows up increasingly aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of slavery.As she tells her story in 1900, she is still prey to her childhood, to the memories of a life that was made bearable in the main by the indomitable family servant Clarice. She secedes from the control of her overbearing father to marry Quincy Lowell, a member of the distinguished Boston family. Living in Raleigh on the eve of the Civil War, Emma Garnet and Quincy, with Clarice's constant help, create the ideal happy home.When war destroys the rhythm of their days, Emma Garnet works alongside Quincy, an accomplished surgeon. As she assists him in the treatment of wounded soldiers, she comes to see the war as a "conflict perpetrated by rich men and fought by poor boys against hungry women and babies." After Appomattox, Emma...
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780060797140 (0060797142)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
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The problem I'm having is that the father is such a riveting (if loathesome) character, that whenever he disappears from the story for a bit, I'm just waiting for him to return. Not that the rest of characters are poorly drawn...but the father is the one I really want to watch, more than his daught...
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