Книга: Janice Holt Giles «The Plum Thicket»
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... Издательство: "Книга по Требованию" (1996)
ISBN: 9780813108599 |
Janice Holt Giles
Janice Holt Giles was a Kentucky author who lived near Knifley in
Giles is noted primarily for her historical
Giles's historical fiction works form a worthy study of early American pioneer life in
Book (approximate period covered; primary geographical settings): "The Kentuckians" (1775 - 1778; VA, KY, TN), "Hannah Fowler" (1778 - 1781; KY, TN, OH), "The Land Beyond the Mountains" (1781 - 1792; KY, PA, IN), "The Believers" (1795 - 1805; KY), "Johnny Osage" (1809 - 1815; OK, AR), "The Voyage to Santa Fe" (1820; OK, TX, NM), "Savanna" (1829 - 1834; OK, AR), "Run Me a River" (September 1861; KY, IN).
References
* [http://www.appalachianbooks.com/Authors/Janice%20Holt%20Giles.htm Janice Holt Giles]
* [http://www.gilessociety.org/ Janice Holt Giles & Henry Giles Society]
* [http://www.wku.edu/Library/kylm/collections/inhouse/mss/giles.html Western Kentucky University Libraries manuscript collection]
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