On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon (Wheeler Large Print Book Series) - Hardcover

Gibbons, Kaye

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 156895624X ISBN 13: 9781568956244

Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Emma Garnet, pampered nineteenth-century Southern plantation owner's daughter, comes to learn the evils of slavery, live the horror of war, and experience a lifetime of conflicting feelings about the culture of the Old South

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Review:

Despite the comings and goings of literary fashion, not much of real importance has changed since Horace said that our stories should aim to instruct and delight. Beginning with ELLEN FOSTER, Kaye Gibbons has achieved both on every page. And she does it again here, strikingly, in a novel abut the bright habits of mind required for survival - and the high price paid for living on (Charles Frazier, author of COLD MOUNTAIN)

Gibbons has wrought a balanced and highly accessible novel...well constructed and provocative (THE TIMES)

Gibbons writes with confidence and imagination about personalities and a time which she has made her own. (TLS)

If there is a writer worthy to nominated the literary heir of Eudora Welty, Gibbons is that writer. (IRISH TIMES)

Book Description:

* One woman's story of guilt and family secrets, this is Kaye Gibbons' first foray into historical fiction

About this edition

• Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 156895624X
• ISBN 13: 9781568956244
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 286