Love in a Dry Season
by:
Shelby Foote (author)
"A fascinating drama...the atmosphere is superbly managed; and on every score, this is a first-rate job of story-telling."-- Philadelphia InquirerShelby Foote's magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash between...
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"A fascinating drama...the atmosphere is superbly managed; and on every score, this is a first-rate job of story-telling."-- Philadelphia InquirerShelby Foote's magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy. Love in a Dry Season describes an erotic and economic triangle, in which two wealthy and fantastically unhappy Mississippi families -- the Barcrofts and the Carrutherses -- are joined by an open-faced fortune hunter from the North, a man whose ruthlessness is matched only by his inability to understand the people he tries to exploit and his fatal incomprehension of the passions he so casually ignites. Combining a flawless sense of place with a Faulknerian command of the grotesque, Foote's novel turns a small cotton town into a sexual battleground as fatal as Vicksburg or Shiloh -- and one where strategy is no match for instinct and tradition.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679736189 (0679736182)
Publish date: June 2nd 1992
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English