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A Wake for the Living (Southern Classics Series)

by Andrew Nelson Lytle

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The Last Agrarian portrays the history and character of the people of the mid-South through a history of his family, giving, in the words of critic J. A. Bryant, Jr., a rendering of a bygone world that brings the ache of beauty remembered. Southern Classics Series.

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Andrew Nelson Lytle

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Original title: A Wake for the Living: A Family Chronicle
Original publication date: 1975

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Languages: English
Media: Paper, Ebook
ISBNs: 3
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Published: 1975
Genre: Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 813.52
LCC: PS3523 .Y88 .Z475

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