| Love in a Dry Season Contributor(s): Foote, Shelby (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679736182 ISBN-13: 9780679736189 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1992 Annotation: A magnificently orchestrated novel of two Depression-era Mississippi families which is "as modern as today's newpaper, as old as Mosaic law" (The New York Times) and renders the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91050722 |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.19" W x 8.03" (0.50 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Shelby 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. |