A Southern Family
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- Synopsis
- In A Southern Family, the celebrated author of A Mother and Two Daughters, The Finishing School, and Father Melancholy's Daughter once again explores the shattering dynamics of parents' relationships with their children and themselves. It is the story of the Quick family and the reunion that leads to tragedy -- a masterful tale of anger and pain, of love and hatred, and of the understanding that ultimately heals. These introspective characters tell us all about themselves from their most base behavior to their most noble ideals. The changing nature of Southern life is shown through their interaction with lives and opinions of southerners of all economical and social backgrounds, the old, those in their prime and the young up and comers. They interact with classic southern institutions, the Catholic church, marriage, funerals, private schools, growing business, courtship, young men sewing wild oats, climbing the social ladder, older women who never marry, vacationing on exclusive islands on the East coast, growing and declining business and the gulf that widens and narrows between blacks and whites, rich and poor. Some who consider themselves better than others take pride in cruelty and indecency and others show generosity to their own class and make overtures of friendship with groups of southerners whose society was once considered taboo.
- Copyright:
- 1987
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 540 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780688065300
- Publisher:
- William Morrow and Company, Inc.
- Date of Addition:
- 06/04/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Gail Godwin
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family
- Submitted By:
- solstice singer
- Proofread By:
- Lissi
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.