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Chargement... Tom Dooley the Story Behind the Ballad (2002)par Karen Wheeling Reynolds
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After the Civil War Tom Dooley comes home to find the love of his life, Anne Foster, married to an older man. Anne, who had promised Tom shewould wait for him, married for money while Tom was away. When hereturns, she makes it clear that she wants to resume their relationship.A hurt and angry Tom begins a romance with sweet Laura Foster, Anne'sfirst cousin. However, Anne's hold on Tom is a strong one, and after a timethe relationship between Tom and Anne is rekindled. Meanwhile, a fewmonths later Laura finds out that she is pregnant. Tom struggles to do theright thing for his unborn child. He finally agrees to meet Laura and runoff to Tennessee and get married. Tom visits Anne the night before he is toleave with Laura and tells Anne of his plans. What happens next turns alover's triangle into the nation's first highly publicized crimes of passion. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I say this because I'm very angry about this volume. On its cover it proudly proclaims itself a "North Carolina Society of Historians Award Winner." The title says "The Story Behind the Ballad." One of the blurbs says "a true telling of the lives and events of the legend of Tom Dooley."
Sure sounds like non-fiction, doesn't it?
Ha.
Get to the copyright page and you'll read that it's a work of "creative nonfiction based on local legend."
In other words, FICTION!
Memo to authors and publishers: Don't lie to me. Call fiction fiction. Historical fiction is a perfectly legitimate art form. (I think. Although every example I've ever read has been inaccurate.) But it is fiction. I bought this on the basis of being able to trust what it said. I can't. I can't use it as a reference anyway. The book has no index. Its only list of sources is a list of five books the author read, one of which (just to give you perspective) is The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War. The only actual data in the book is some quotations from things said at Thomas Dula's murder trial. But all this material can be found in full rather than in excerpt in John Foster West's Lift Up Your Head Tom Dooley.
Understand that I can't give a useful review of this book as fiction. I don't read this kind of fiction. If you want "local color," this book may be for you -- the author tries hard to capture dialect and the like (e.g. calling Pauline Foster "Perline"). And apparently the author tried to be realistic. But I'd trust her a lot more if there were any reason to do so (footnotes, list of sources, chronology of verifiable events, anything). There is nothing. ( )