Deep Summer
- 424bladzijden
- 15 uur lezen
As Judith Sheramy is traveling down the Mississippi River with a group of settlers, she meets and marries Philip Larne, and together they oversee their farm until yellow fever claims the lives of their slaves.
Deze meeslepende saga neemt lezers mee naar het turbulente tijdperk van koloniaal Amerika, met de nadruk op de uitgestrekte plantages van Louisiana. Volg de verweven lotsbestemmingen van meerdere generaties terwijl ze navigeren door liefde, verlies en de strijd om te overleven tegen zowel de macht van de natuur als maatschappelijke scheidslijnen. Het verhaal schetst levendig de dramatische evolutie van het leven vanaf de vroege dagen van vestiging tot de complexe interpersoonlijke dynamiek, aangewakkerd door ambitie en geheimen. Het is een epische reis die een diepgaande kijk biedt op veerkracht en de blijvende menselijke geest in uitdagende tijden.
As Judith Sheramy is traveling down the Mississippi River with a group of settlers, she meets and marries Philip Larne, and together they oversee their farm until yellow fever claims the lives of their slaves.
HISTORICAL FICTION. "New York Times"--Bestselling author Gwen Bristow brings to life Civil War-era Louisiana in the impassioned, poignant story of a plantation mistress and a poor seamstress--and the men they love--whose lives are irrevocably changed as the Old South fallsCorrie May Upjohn stands on the levee, watching men unload the riverboats and wishing she could travel far away. A poor preacher's daughter, she is only fourteen, and her life is already laid out for her: marriage in a year or two, and then decades of drudgery. At nearby Ardeith Plantation, Ann Sheramy Larne lives in luxury, but feels just as imprisoned as Corrie May. Their lives could not be more different, but when the horrors of war and Reconstruction come to Louisiana, these two women will band together to survive. This is the second novel in Gwen Bristow's Plantation Trilogy, which also includes "Deep Summer" and "This Side of Glory."