The Plum Thicket - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Plum Thicket write by Janice Holt Giles. This book was released on 1954. The Plum Thicket available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Janice Holt Giles had a life before her marriage and writing career in Kentucky. Born in Altus, Arkansas, Giles spent many childhood summers visiting her grandparents there. After the success of her historical novel The Kentuckians in 1953, she planned to write a second frontier romance. But a visit to Altus caused her imagination to drift from Kentucky in 1780 to western Arkansas in 1913. At age forty-eight -- the same age as Giles at the writing of the novel -- the heroine Katie Rogers recalls her first visit alone to her grandparent's home in Stanwick, Arkansas. Eight-year-old Katie spends her summer climbing the huge mulberry tree and walking with her wise grandfather, a veteran of bloody Shiloh. She is fascinated, not frightened, by the grave of an unknown child in the nearby plum thicket. Throughout the visit Katie helps Aunt Maggie plan her wedding and looks forward to the three-day Confederate Reunion. But the Reunion -- and the summer -- end violently, as guilt, repression, and miscegenation are unearthed. "That summer was the end of a whole way of life," Katie realizes, for she can never again dwell in the paradise of childhood. In Katie Rogers, Giles voiced her own lament for "the beautiful and the unrecoverable past." To her publisher Giles wrote, "Out of my forty-odd years of living, much of whatever wisdom I have acquired has been distilled into this book." This new edition of The Plum Thicket gives Giles's many fans a powerful, moving glimpse into the mind and heart of this beloved author. Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.
The Plum Thicket
The Plum Thicket - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Plum Thicket write by Janice Holt Giles. This book was released on 1973. The Plum Thicket available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Navigating the Plum Thicket
Navigating the Plum Thicket - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Navigating the Plum Thicket write by John Sherbondy. This book was released on 2022-03-05. Navigating the Plum Thicket available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. You can learn a lot by getting your hands dirty With humor, humility, and insight, John and Kip Sherbondy share moments of their lives in Navigating the Plum Thicket. "Life is kind of like that," John quips, "You reach for the juiciest, wildest fruits of life, and get poked by thorns along the way." How you navigate through the thorns provides the lessons one learns from those thorns.
Janice Holt Giles
Janice Holt Giles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Janice Holt Giles write by Dianne W. Stuart. This book was released on 2021-10-21. Janice Holt Giles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1946, at the age of 41, Janice Holt Giles wrote her first novel. Although it took her only three months to complete the first draft, working at night so as not to conflict with her secretarial job, it was another four years before The Enduring Hills was published. Three years later, when her sixth novel appeared, Janice Holt Giles's works had accumulated sales of nearly two million copies. Between 1950 and 1975 she wrote twenty-four books, most of which were bestsellers, regularly reviewed in the New York Times, and selected for inclusion in popular book clubs. Her picture held pride of place in her literary agent's New York office, alongside those of Willa Cather, H.G. Wells, and Edith Wharton, yet until now there has been no biography of this immensely popular American writer. Humbly professing to be "just a good storyteller," Giles was a keen observer of life with great sensitivity, an ear for language, and a superb imagination. Her artistic achievements become even more remarkable when placed in the context of her often difficult personal struggles. Dianne Watkins Stuart, for years the acknowledged expert on Giles's work, has traced the path of her unique life. Stuart walked around the small house where Giles's brother was born and The Kinta Years (1973) had its origin, wandered through the yard where The Plum Thicket (1954) grew, and made countless trips to Adair County, Kentucky, to trace the trails of the Piney Ridge trilogy (The Enduring Hills, Miss Willie, Tara's Healing) and seek out the day-to-day life of her later years. Stuart's long-anticipated biography provides both a narrative of Giles's life and an in-depth description of the art and commerce of American publishing in the middle years of the century.
White Plum Thickets
White Plum Thickets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook White Plum Thickets write by Bertha West Nealey. This book was released on 1978. White Plum Thickets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
