Josephine Humphreys
Auteur de Nowhere Else on Earth
A propos de l'auteur
Josephine Humphreys is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. She is the author of "Dreams of Sleep," which won the 1985 Hemingway Foundation Award for a first work of fiction; of "Rich in Love," made into a major motion picture; & of "The Fireman's Fair" (all available from Penguin). afficher plus She lives in Charleston, South Carolina. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Humphreys, Josephine
- Date de naissance
- 1945-02-02
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Charleston, South Carolina, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Charleston, South Carolina, USA (birth)
- Études
- Ashley Hall
Duke University
Yale University
University of Texas - Professions
- novelist
- Organisations
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
- Prix et distinctions
- Guggenheim Fellowship
Lyndhurst Prize
Hillsdale Award for Fiction (1993)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1995)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Trees (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 737
- Popularité
- #34,456
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 35
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 3
The residents of Shuffletown, North Carolina, are an isolated and tight-knit clan, mixed-race descendants of early Scots settlers, an Indian tribe whose Native American traditions and heritage has long been subsumed in the mix, and an occasional freed or escaped slave. They get buy on subsistence farming, the making of turpentine, and a total lack of interest in the Civil War that is raging through the south as it crawls to its bloody and broken conclusion.
Inevitably, the war comes to them, though mostly through the anti-Union sentiments of neighbors from nearby communities. And through all this, Rhoda Strong grows from a 15-year-old dreaming of marrying (although she's not sure to whom) and struggles, along with her family, to survive the coming violence.
There's an unexpectedly leisurely pace to this book, as much of it concerns itself with the nature of Scuffletown and its surrounding pine forest, sheltering and unconcerned, even as dreadful acts are being performed.
This is mostly a story of perseverance, of family loyalties, and of the lengths to which people will go when the society around them is trying to drive them to extinction.
Don't pick it up if you're looking for Gone With the Wind, or The Daring Adventures of Jesse James. Settle in, let it wash over and through you like the Lumbee River, and let the lives of these simple, honest people inhabit your soul for a while.… (plus d'informations)