Love In A Dry Season, Shelby Foote
Love In A Dry Season, Shelby Foote
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Love In A Dry Season

Author: Shelby Foote

Narrator: Tom Parker

Unabridged: 16 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2005

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Love in a Dry Season describes an erotic and economic triangle in which two wealthy and fantastically unhappy Mississippi families, the Barcrofts and the Carrutherses, are joined by an openfaced fortune hunter from the North, a man whose ruthlessness is matched only by his inability to understand the people he tries to exploit and his fatal incomprehension of the passions he so casually ignites.

About Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote (1916-2005) was an American historian and novelist who came from a long line of Mississippians. After attending the University of North Carolina, he served in World War II as a captain of field artillery in the European theater. He wrote six novels and was awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships in the twenty-year course of writing his monumental three-volume history, The Civil War: A Narrative.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Camie on June 06, 2016

This classic early Southern gothic set in fictional Bristol Mississippi, finds two wealthy families the " old money" Barcrofts and the" trust fund" Carrutheres ( new arrivals in town ) in unhappy situations. When slick Harley Drew ( a Northerner) comes to town seeking fortune, he finds easy prey in......more

Goodreads review by Terry on February 24, 2024

Meh. I just didn’t like any of the characters so I didn’t care what happened to them.......more