Where Shadows Go

by Eugenia Price

Overview

America's first lady of storytelling takes up where her best-selling Bright Captivity left off, recreating life on a nineteenth-century plantation in the vivid, dramatic second volume of The Georgia Trilogy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683367482
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	11/21/2017
Series:	Georgia Trilogy Series , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	622
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Eugenia Price is the author of the St. Simons Trilogy, the Florida Trilogy, and the Savannah Quartet, as well as twenty-five other works of fiction and nonfiction. For her trilogy of novels set on St. Simons Island, she was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Governor's Award and the Distinguished Science Award from the Georgia College. The author, who celebrated her eightieth birthday in June, makes her home on St. Simons Island.

Editorial Reviews

Price's 38th novel is like molasses--treacly and slow. The second book in the Georgia Trilogy that began with Bright Captivity follows the nearly charmed life of John and Anne Couper Fraser from 1825, when the couple leaves London to return to Anne's (and Price's) home on Georgia's St. Simons Island, to 1839. Surrounded by the natural beauty of the family's coastal plantation, John overcomes his abhorrence of slavery to become a respected planter. He and Anne adore each other, raise their children and ponder the problems that seem to plague everyone but them. Late in the tale, friendship with the English actress/abolitionist Fanny Kemble Butler causes Anne to consider for the first time the moral implications of her lifestyle. When tragedy finally touches her, faith and the support of her children provide Anne with the fortitude to carry on. While Price's simplistic storytelling skills have sufficed in previous novels, this one disappoints: the characters that really bring it to life, the Butlers, appear too little and too late. Tedious pacing and insufficient dramatic action make this a saccharine narrative unredeemed by Price's obvious feeling for her characters and their milieu. Doubleday and Christian Herald Book Clubs. (Apr.)

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