An edition of The plum thicket (1954)

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An edition of The plum thicket (1954)

The plum thicket

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Janice Holt Giles had a life before her marriage and writing career in Kentucky. Born in Altus, Arkansas, Giles spent many childhood summers visiting her grandparents there. After the success of her historical novel The Kentuckians in 1953, she planned to write a second frontier romance. But a visit to Altus caused her imagination to drift from Kentucky in 1780 to western Arkansas in 1913.

At age forty-eight - the same age as Giles at the writing of the novel - Katie Rogers recalls her first visit alone to her grandparents' home in Stanwick, Arkansas. Eight-year-old Katie spends her summer climbing the huge mulberry tree and walking with her wise grandfather, a veteran of bloody Shiloh. She is fascinated, not frightened, by the grave of an unknown child in the nearby plum thicket.

Throughout the visit Katie helps Aunt Maggie plan her wedding and looks forward to the three-day Confederate Reunion. But the Reunion - and the summer - end violently, as guilt, repression, and miscegenation are unearthed. "That summer was the end of a whole way of life," Katie realizes, for she can never again dwell in the paradise of childhood.

In Katie Rogers, Giles voiced her own lament for "the beautiful and the unrecoverable past." To her publisher Giles wrote, "Out of my forty-odd years of living, much of whatever wisdom I have acquired has been distilled into this book." This new edition of The Plum Thicket gives Giles's many fans a powerful, moving glimpse into the mind and heart of this beloved author.

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Publisher
G.K. Hall
Language
English
Pages
473

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The Plum Thicket
1954-01-01, Houghton Mufflin & Co.

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Edition Notes

"Published in large print by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company"--T.p. verso.

Published in
Boston, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3513.I4628 P58 1984

The Physical Object

Pagination
473 p. ;
Number of pages
473

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2850510M
Internet Archive
plumthicket0000gile_b4e4
ISBN 10
0816136475
LCCN
84012795
Goodreads
4954007

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