The Handsome Road by Gwen Bristow

The Handsome Road by Gwen Bristow

The Civil War alters life for a Louisiana plantation mistress and a poor seamstress in this novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of Jubilee Trail.

Corrie May Upjohn stands on the levee, watching men unload the riverboats and wishing she could travel far away. A poor preacher's daughter, she is only fourteen and her life is already laid out for her: marriage in a year or two, and then decades of drudgery.

At nearby Ardeith Plantation, Ann Sheramy Larne lives in luxury, but feels just as imprisoned as Corrie May. Their lives could not be more different, but when the horrors of war and Reconstruction come to Louisiana and the Old South begins to fall, these two women will band together to survive.

From the bestselling author of Calico Palace, this is the second novel in the poignant Plantation Trilogy, which also includes Deep Summer and This Side of Glory.

“Very rich, very fully and carefully detailed. . Miss Bristow belongs among those Southern novelists who are trying to interpret the South and its past in critical terms. It may be that historians will alter some of the details of her picture. But no doubt life in a small river town in Louisiana during the years 1859–1885 was like the life revealed in The Handsome Road.” —TheNew York Times
 
“Bristow has the true gift of storytelling.” —Chicago Tribune

Gwen Bristow (1903-1980) was born in South Carolina, where her family had lived in the seventeenth century. She wrote seven popular historical novels that vividly depict significant episodes in American history, including the siege of Charleston during the American Revolution (Celia Garth) and the great California gold rush (Calico Palace). Bristow worked as a reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune from 1925 to 1934 after graduating from Judson College in Alabama and attending Columbia School of Journalism. She became interested in larger forms of writing, such as novels and screenplays, thanks to her husband, screenwriter Bruce Manning. Bristow's writing career took off after she went to Hollywood, with the release of Deep Summer, the first of a trilogy of Louisiana-set historical novels that also includes The Handsome Road and This Side of Glory. In her bestselling novels Jubilee Trail, which was adapted into a film in 1954, and Golden Dreams, Bristow continued to write about the American South and investigated the colonization of the American West. Tomorrow Is Forever, based on her novel, was made into a film in 1946, starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, and Natalie Wood.

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ISBN 13	9781480485365
ISBN 10	1480485365
Title	The Handsome Road
Author	Gwen Bristow
Series	Plantation Trilogy
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Open Road Media
Year published	2014-05-20
Number of pages	424
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