Benton's Row
  • Published:
    Jan-1954
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    Print
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    19th Century
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THE DEVIL'S SPAWN

This history of a pioneering Southern family unfolds in this story of triumph and tragedy. In 1842, Tom Benton gallopes in the Red River Valley, one jump ahead of a Texas posse bent on hanging him. He feared no living thing. He loved danger and laughed at the impossible. He stole his wife from her husband, his land from its legal owner. Not content with lusty Sarah, he took a knife-slinging Cajun's daughter for a mistress. From the day Tom Benton arrived into Louisiana, he and her family ruled the bayou country.

Tom sired three children. A daughter, Stormy, as wild and willful as himself. Wade, who inherited all of his father's weakness and none of his strength. And a second son not even Tom dared claim as his own -- a boy who one day would bring destruction and misery to the Benton clan. Devil's spawn they all were. Stormy ran away to the glittering life of a courtesan. Wade delivered his father over to the one man who could kill him. And in Benton's Row people watched, horrified, fascinated, and whispered -- “Every time a damned Benton is born, people should run for cover!”

In 1920 his wife Sarah, aged ninety-seven, dies peacefully in her rocker on the veranda of Tom Benton's sprawling plantation known as Broad Acres, nestled in the exotic and mysterious Louisiana river country. This is a spellbinding story of four brawling generations of Bentons, a family that comes to a violent end caused by its own illicit Negro branch.
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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Mar-1977
    • Dell
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0440105129
    • ISBN13: 9780440105121
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    • Dec-1968
    • New English Library Ltd
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0450002098
    • ISBN13: 9780450002090
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    • Apr-1975
    • MacMillan
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0330242695
    • ISBN13: 9780330242691
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    • Mar-1968
    • William Heinemann (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0434890111
    • ISBN13: 9780434890118



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