Love in a Dry Season
  • Published:
    Jun-1992
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    250
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Shelby Foote's magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy. 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. Combining a flawless sense of place with a Faulknerian command of the grotesque, Foote's novel turns a small cotton town into a sexual battleground as fatal as Vicksburg or Shiloh -- and one where strategy is no match for instinct and tradition.
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    • First Edition
    • Jun-1992
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0679736182
    • ISBN13: 9780679736189
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    • Jan-2001
    • Ballantine
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0345289323
    • ISBN13: 9780345289322
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    • Jul-1979
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0394408772
    • ISBN13: 9780394408774
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    • Apr-2011
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307779254
    • ISBN13: 9780307779250
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    • Oct-2002
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 0786193980
    • ISBN13: 9780786193981
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    • Oct-2002
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0786123540
    • ISBN13: 9780786123544
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    • Dec-2004
    • Blackstone Audio, Inc.
    • Audible
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    • Aug-2013
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1470891131
    • ISBN13: 9781470891138



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