Deep Summer
- 424pagine
- 15 ore di lettura
As Judith Sheramy is traveling down the Mississippi River with a group of settlers, she meets and marries Philip Larne, and together they oversee their farm until yellow fever claims the lives of their slaves.
Trilogia della PiantagioneSerie
Questa vasta saga trasporta i lettori nell'era tumultuosa dell'America coloniale, concentrandosi sulle vaste piantagioni della Louisiana. Seguite i destini intrecciati di diverse generazioni mentre navigano tra amore, perdita e lotta per la sopravvivenza contro la potenza della natura e le divisioni sociali. La narrazione ritrae vividamente la drammatica evoluzione della vita dai primi giorni dell'insediamento alle complesse dinamiche interpersonali alimentate dall'ambizione e dai segreti. È un viaggio epico che offre uno sguardo profondo sulla resilienza e sullo spirito umano duraturo in tempi difficili.
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HISTORICAL FICTION. "New York Times"--Bestselling author Gwen Bristow brings to life Civil War-era Louisiana in the impassioned, poignant story of a plantation mistress and a poor seamstress--and the men they love--whose lives are irrevocably changed as the Old South fallsCorrie May Upjohn stands on the levee, watching men unload the riverboats and wishing she could travel far away. A poor preacher's daughter, she is only fourteen, and her life is already laid out for her: marriage in a year or two, and then decades of drudgery. At nearby Ardeith Plantation, Ann Sheramy Larne lives in luxury, but feels just as imprisoned as Corrie May. Their lives could not be more different, but when the horrors of war and Reconstruction come to Louisiana, these two women will band together to survive. This is the second novel in Gwen Bristow's Plantation Trilogy, which also includes "Deep Summer" and "This Side of Glory."
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