Dark Of The Moon
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- USD 9.99
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- USD 9.99
Descripción editorial
“Janice Daugharty is a natural-born writer.” – Pat Conroy
She held him prisoner. He set her free.
A moonshiner’s downtrodden wife. A federal agent in search of illegal stills. A love neither expected. A situation about to explode.
When her cruel husband, Hamp, kidnaps Mac, an FBI agent working undercover as a whiskey revenuer, Merdie Lee is given the job of caring for him. Against all common sense, Mac and Merdie Lee, a midwife and aspiring country-western singer, fall in love. Mac becomes determined to rescue her from her dangerous, abusive situation. Tensions boil out of control after a blackmailing sheriff pushes Hamp over the edge.
No one may come out of the pine woods of South Georgia alive.
“Filled with tension and drama.”—Publishers Weekly
“Nothing is as it first appears in this odd but engaging love story.”—Library Journal
“Sensuous, swift, full of sparkling twists, [Daugharty's] is a voice so rich that a single page can be thrilling.”—The New York Times Book Review
Janice Daugharty’s 1997 novel, EARL IN THE YELLOW SHIRT, (HarperCollins), was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She is the author of seven acclaimed novels and two short story collections. She serves as writer-in-residence at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, in Tifton, Georgia.
Visit the author at www.janicedaugharty.com
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her short story collection, Going Through the Change, Daugharty offered glimpses of the sordid lives that are the background for this novel, in which ``backward'' is equated with ``backwoods.'' Set in 1953, in the Okefenokee Swamp region of south Georgia, this story of inbreeding and small-town secrets focuses on a pathetic, pregnant 17-year-old who was once the shining hope of her uneducated father. Cliffie Flowers, the oldest, smartest and prettiest daughter of ``Pappy'' Ocain Flowers, considers herself civilized in comparison to her impoverished mother and siblings (among whom are a brother named Roy Acuff and a bed-wetting sister named Pee-Jean). Yet Cliffie's values mirror her family's, and she is doomed to disappointment. When she becomes pregnant by criminally violent Roy Harris Weeks, she waxes romantic and plans to join him on a bus out of town to Fort Bragg; her tragic ``necessary lies'' are told to protect Roy Harris from Ocain's wrath, and later from charges of murder. Ocain, however, knows more than Cliffie guesses--he has told lies of his own. Daugharty ably juxtaposes Cliffie's sentimental notions and the overall hopelessness of her situation: ``Nobody else had been obliged to amount to something,'' Cliffie argues in defiance of Ocain's praise. While this story is ugly--fascinatingly so, in fact--its freakish parade of stereotypical hicks offers sorrow without relief.
