A Circuit Rider's Wife: A Novel: xxix (Brown Thrasher Books) - Softcover

Corra Harris (author)|Grace Toney Edwards (foreword)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820320129 ISBN 13: 9780820320120

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 1998

Synopsis

A thinly veiled autobiographical account of one woman's austere life in the north Georgia mountains, A Circuit Rider's Wife draws on the years Corra Harris accompanied her husband in his work as a Methodist missionary. Set mostly in the fictional Redwine circuit, the novel tells of the challenges, hardships, and—aside from the occasional homemade or homegrown donations—mostly intangible rewards of itinerant country preaching. Through the eyes of Elizabeth Thompson, the circuit rider's wife and narrator, Harris offers a witty but caring assessment of the sometimes fine differences between spiritual and merely religious folks, town and country society, backsliders and straight-and-narrow plodders, Methodists and Baptists, and heaven and hell.

About this title

About the Author

CORRA HARRIS (1869-1935) was a native Georgian. A Circuit Rider's Wife has been included in several anthologies and was the basis for the 1951 film I'd Climb the Highest Mountain.

From the Back Cover

Drawn from firsthand experience, A Circuit Rider's Wife is the fictionalized account of how Corra Harris sometimes followed, sometimes guided her husband through his missionary work in the north Georgia mountains. All along the hard-scrabble Redwine circuit the story vividly brings alive the strivings and strayings of an itinerant country preacher's restless flocks with warmth and humor.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820320129
• ISBN 13: 9780820320120
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344