| Title | : | Love in a Dry Season |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Shelby Foote |
| Release | : | 1992-06-02 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Family Fiction & Literature |
| Size | : | 6654292 |
| 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. |
