

Last Light over Carolina
Author: Mary Alice Monroe
Narrator: Sandra Burr
Unabridged: 8 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 07/14/2009
Categories: Fiction, Family Life
Author: Mary Alice Monroe
Narrator: Sandra Burr
Unabridged: 8 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 07/14/2009
Categories: Fiction, Family Life
Mary Alice Monroe is the New York Times bestselling author of Last Light over Carolina and Time Is a River as well as many other acclaimed novels. She received the 2008 Award for Writing from the South Carolina Center for the Book. An active conservationist, she lives in the lowcountry of South Carolina, where she is at work on her next novel.
After reading the description I thought this book would be a lot like The Perfect Storm. I was wrong. It was a great story and a truly touching and emotional book. While the story's main plot revolves around Bud and the perilous situation he is in there is so much more to this one. As Bud and Caroli......more
Fast, easy read. Interesting was the focus of lives of the two main people, perspectives were from each of them, reviewing current as well as past events in thier lives. The book moved from current to past and was an interesting perspective of long married people and how lives come together, drift ap......more
Well done, solid storytelling. The reader can feel the weight of history in each of the character's actions. I doubt the shrimping industry is as glamorous as Bud makes it out to be, but it is an honorable profession of hard working people, dedicated to feeding us pleasurable meals. It is nice to se......more
Bud and Carolina Morrison have been married for well over 30 years. They reside in the small coastal town of McClellanville, South Carolina where Bud captains the Miss Carolina - his shrimping boat. Although being a shrimper is not the easiest of lives (long, hard-working days) - it is something tha......more
I really liked this book about the Morrison family and their tiny town, McClellan, South Carolina. Progress is coming to the town, things are changing. Not many years ago, their were many shrimp boats tied up to the dock, but now only the diehard, traditional families still shrimp. The Morrisons, Bud......more