When life is upended, what do you do? Do you remain as you were, trapped in a form of stasis? Or do you accept your losses and move forward? These questions and more are the heart of _The Handsome Man._ These linked stories follow several years of the life of a young man as he is drawn around the w
The Handsome Road
β Scribed by Bristow, Gwen
- Book ID
- 108599805
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 297 KB
- Series
- Plantation 2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781480485280
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
(Plantation Trilogy Book 2)
New York Timesβbestselling author Gwen Bristow brings to life Civil Warβera Louisiana in the impassioned, poignant story of a plantation mistress and a poor seamstressβand the men they loveβwhose lives are irrevocably changed as the Old South falls. Corrie May Upjohn stands on the levee, watching men unload the riverboats and wishing she could travel far away. A poor preacherβs daughter, she is only fourteen, and her life is already laid out for her: marriage in a year or two, and then decades of drudgery. At nearby Ardeith Plantation, Ann Sheramy Larne lives in luxury, but feels just as imprisoned as Corrie May. Their lives could not be more different, but when the horrors of war and Reconstruction come to Louisiana, these two women will band together to survive.This is the second novel in Gwen Bristowβs Plantation Trilogy, which also includes Deep Summer and This Side of Glory.
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