
Love in a Dry Season
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Narrated by:
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Tom Parker
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By:
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Shelby Foote
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.
©1951, 1979 Shelby Foote (P)2002 Blackstone AudiobooksListeners also enjoyed...




















Critic reviews
"A fascinating drama...the atmosphere is superbly managed; and on every score, this is a first-rate job of story-telling." (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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A really enjoyable read
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Fascinating Listen
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Superbly written!
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Hmmmmmm
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I would love to find more like this.
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more like "A very dry book for free!"
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Certainly, non-fiction and critical commentary, at which he excels, is different from a work of fiction. Still, I was surprised at the very poor quality of this work. The characters lack depth and interest. They are like comic book characters, plopped into a melodrama that does not lead to anything positive, insightful, or in the slightest way uplifting. It some ways it proceeds like an "anti-novel": instead of acquiring depth and wisdom as they proceed the characters simply tumble into ever greater depths of haplessness and dysfunction.
I would have to rate the book a waste of my time when all is said and done.
A Story and Characters Not Worth Your Time
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