· Love in a Dry Season is set in a small town in Mississippi where Foote's southern background allows him to bring an authentic sensibility to every aspect of life. Set in the first half of the 20th century, characters and places have roots as far back as the Civil War, but the styles and sounds of the 20s are in fashion in the 30s and 40s/5(58). 7 rows · · Shelby Foote's magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 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 open-faced 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.4/5(78).
Reviews A Review of Love in a Dry Season. by Dana Lance (SHS) Shelby Foote's work is based mainly on his experiences and the history of his native hometown, Greenville, Mississippi. Discussion of this little metropolis in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta may not be exciting biographical material for a literary study, but is definitely important in appreciating his work. Choose items to buy together. This item: Love in a Dry Season. by Shelby Foote Paperback. $ Only 6 left in stock (more on the way). Ships from and sold by bltadwin.ru FREE Shipping on orders over $ Follow Me Down: A Novel. by Shelby Foote Paperback. Amy". ― Shelby Foote, Love in a Dry Season. 2 likes. Like. "At any rate, though he never succeeded in laughing at her, as she had done (and continued to do) at him, he fulfilled at least half of what he had predicted he would do when they were married; he beat her. The trouble was, she fought back.
Love in a Dry Season is set in a small town in Mississippi where Foote's southern background allows him to bring an authentic sensibility to every aspect of life. Set in the first half of the 20th century, characters and places have roots as far back as the Civil War, but the styles and sounds of the 20s are in fashion in the 30s and 40s. LOVE IN A DRY SEASON. by Shelby Foote ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 19, Dirty and dull- but shrewdly contrived and skillfully executed so that- while you loathe practically every character in the book, you believe in them. A sordid triangle,- Amy, a nymphomaniac and a rotter, her blind husband, Jeff, who enjoys contriving reasons for display of jealousy and suspicion, and Drew, a travelling salesman on the make, who deliberately woos and wins the spinster daughter of the town's leading. Love in a Dry Season. Shelby Foote. Vintage Books, - Fiction - pages. 3 Reviews. Shelby Foote's magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental.
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