Caroline Pafford Miller (1903–1992)
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- 1903-08-26
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- 1992-07-12
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- USA
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- Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
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If you like a lot of snappy dialogue and a fast moving, action packed plot that moves forward at the speed of light, this is not for you. In fact, I’m not sure there is a plot. I was so lost in the prose I didn’t notice.
This is a beautiful but grueling book. It’s the story of an extended family of settlers in Georgia, in the decades leading up to and at the time of the Civil War, trying to eke out a living on the land, with nothing much between themselves and the harshness of nature except what they and their families had learned the hard way.
But the prose, the world, the sheer not-Gone-With the Wind-ness of it, are reason enough to read it.
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