Parrish
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- Synopsis
- From the book Jacket: THis novel plunges you into a colorful and dramatic world in conflict-a world which knows both the clamoring pressures of modern industry and the lingering traditions of plantation life: the world of the great tobacco plantations. And the conflict that rages is between the old, established planters who have for generations owned vast acres in a Connecticut valley, and the powerful outsider, Judd Raike, who came from nowhere and began as nothing and whose shrewd, driving skill at acquiring land now poses a threat to them all. The conflict is seen through the eyes of another outsider, Parrish MacLean, who first enters this world on a brilliant summer day in his nineteenth year and who finds himself swept into the center of the struggle. He comes to the valley with his mother. She is to be governess to a rich planter's daughter; he is to fit in wherever he can. He begins as a stranger, confused by the fast pace, the fantastic industry, the intensified emotions. He approaches with uncertainty the life before him, but soon he becomes deeply involved with this society, these people: - Sala Post, the proud aristocratic planter, who in the beginning despises Parrish as he despises all outsiders. But eventually he joins with him in a desperate alliance. - Sala's daughter Allison. She is the first rich girl Parrish has ever known. She wants Parrish, but on her own terms - stiff terms which include a betrayal of all her father's life has stood for. - Lucy, the girl from the tenant farm. She loves Parrish and shares with him his early days of loneliness. But there is one secret she cannot share. - Paige, Judd Raike's daughter. Parrish knows her first as a rebellious girl in pigtails. Only later does he discover the depth of her rebellion. - And Judd Raike himself, the empire- builder, who wants to own people as well as land and who finds in Parrish the most difficult challenge he has ever faced. Parrish is the story of these men and women and others-their intermingled lives, their complex and sometimes surprising relationships; It is a grand-scale portrait of people and industry and land. And it is the gripping story of how Parrish MacLean, caught in a world of conflicting values, learns to plot a course of his own.
- Copyright:
- 1958
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 408 Pages
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 03/19/07
- Copyrighted By:
- Mildred Savage
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Ilene Sirocca
- Proofread By:
- RochC
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.