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Charlie Fletcher moves his family to a Virginia farm during World War II and enters into conflict with the take-over Bellows brothers
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When John Spencer mysteriously disappeared in 1935, his black sharecroppers moved into the ancestral Virginia home and lived there, operating the farm as their own, until the estate, Elm Grove, was sold for taxes. The novel opens in 1942. Charlie Fletcher and his wife, Lara, have purchased Elm Grove and taken possession with the intention of befriending the recently displaced Bellows family. But Charlie's naive liberalism, born of years in the North, only serves to offend his new neighbors and ultimately leads to tragedy. Shreve's novel is a study in race relations, fraught with suppressed prejudice, passion, and misunderstandings. It is a compelling piece that leaves the reader with hope for a better future. Thomas L. Kilpatrick, Southern Illinois Univ. at Carbondale Lib.
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White Midwesterner Charley Fletcher moves his family to a farm tucked into the Virginia countryside, where he plans to begin anew, living in harmony with the Bellowses, a family descended from the slaves who once worked the farm. "The pleasing lyricism of Shreve's prose has a dreamy, unfocused quality that keeps these characters at arm's length," noted PW.
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- ISBN 13 9780385267755
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