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Love in a Dry Season

Shelby Foote

出版	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992-06-02
主題	Fiction / LiteraryFiction / Family Life / GeneralFiction / Historical / General
ISBN	06797361829780679736189
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8PvyAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

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.