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Loading... Swan: A Novel from the author of Under the Tuscan Sun (edition 2003)by Frances Mayes (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Found myself engrossed in the story and charmed by the characters. I fell in love with under the Tuscan sun when I read it many years ago. This book, though sad, was a delight. ( ) In Swan, Georgia, it is humid, and everyone knows one another's business. This perfectly captures the feel of the "Old South" that lingers around what I like to call the "cotton aristocracy." (As a southerner, I am allowed to say this without any hint of condescension toward, and only love for, the people that phrase describes!) The characters are complex people that you feel you are gradually coming to know and like. It is a suspenseful story about a family who was torn apart by their mother's suicide. When someone digs up the mother's body the family is in for a shock, and their healing can begin. The theme of archaeology, both of historical artifacts, and skeletons in the family closet is explored in a unique way. One gets a real sense of both the South, and Italy, in this book. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Publisher SeriesGallimard, Folio (4058)
When the body of her mother, a suicide nineteen years earlier, is mysteriously exhumed, Ginger Mason returns to her small Georgia hometown and is reunited with her reclusive brother as dark secrets about their family begin to surface. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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