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Child of the South by Joanna Catherine Scott
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Berkley Trade; 1 edition (April 7, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0425226026
ISBN-13: 978-0425226025
From the award-winning author of The Road from Chapel Hill, a story of loyalty, duty, and love in the days following the Civil War.
Returning to characters introduced in her previous novel, acclaimed author Joanna Catherine Scott explores the terrain of a devastated South, where the war is over-but conflict lives on. Having endured years of hardship, Eugenia Mae Spotswood returns to Wilmington to find out who her mother is, only to be faced with racism and hatred...until she is befriended by the most powerful Negro leader in the state Senate.
Also driven forward are the strong-minded ex-slave Tom and his crippled former enemy Clyde Bricket. Tom spent the last years of the war working for the Union as a spy. Now, Clyde watches as his family farm slowly dies. Only if they work together can they survive...
Joanna Catherine Scott was born in England, raised in Australia, and took her graduate degree in Philosophy at Duke University. She is the author of four previous novels as well as works of nonfiction and poetry.
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The Triangle is looking for a few good writers
From the City of Raleigh Arts Commission:
Piedmont Laureate Call for Applications
The Piedmont Laureate program will be accepting applications from creative nonfiction writers for 2011! Authors of works including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, travel writings, and new journalism are eligible to apply. Writers must be residents of Alamance, Durham, Orange and/or [...]
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M-V-P! M-V-P!
In his latest Musings post, Scott Owens heaps praise on the invaluable Glenda Beall, and I couldn’t agree more.
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Bravo, Nancy
Congratulations to the Network’s good friend Nancy Olson, owner of Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books & Music, who will receive a 2010 Raleigh Medal of the Arts in a ceremony on October 6. Nancy has done as much for North Carolina’s writers, and North Carolina’s literary culture, as anyone, and this honor is well-deserved.
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Hat's Off!
Dody Williams short story, "Betrothed", won the Scratch Contest Summer 2009 quarterly writing contest. Contest judge Patti Callahan Henry said of "Betrothed", "This story has what all great stories should have: an intriguing opening that makes the reader want to know more. The story takes us back and forth in time, building tension with each forward movement, and then taking us backward toward the meaning of his regret. The author builds a world around his themes and then allows the reader to go with him to the very end."You can read the story here. http://www.scratchcontest.net/id19.html |
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