Harbin’s Ridge
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- Synopsis
- A story of the Kentucky hill country, of a place and a people which know little change, of pride and loyalty which is self-contained and a code of conduct which is self-imposed. In the soft, slow idiom of the region, Jeff Harbin looks back on his boyhood and his friendship with Faleecy John, who fought his first fight for him- then taught him to fight back, gave him a hound pup, and elicited a steady devotion and admiration. But it is only Jeff who doesn't know that Faleecy John is his half-brother, the bastard son of Mark Harbin, and that the spirited ambition of the older boy is fed by a resentment which is first exposed when Faleecy John takes over Jeff's girl. Cut off by Mark Harbin, who refuses the land he had agreed to sell him, Faleecy John is one of the night riders who burn Mark's barns to the ground in the tobacco war. Sustained in its intensity, soft in sympathy, this is a first novel of particular character and conviction.
- Copyright:
- 1951
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 212 Pages
- Publisher:
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Date of Addition:
- 01/08/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Henry E. Giles
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Reading Age:
- 15 and up
- Submitted By:
- Melba June Thompson
- Proofread By:
- Lynn Thompson
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.