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Foote, Shelby was born on November 17, 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi, United States. Son of Shelby Dade and Lillian (Rosenstock) Foote.
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Stories look into the lives of such diverse characters as a Black horn player doomed by tuberculosis and convulsive jealousy, a tormented and ineffectual aristocrat, and a half-wild frontiersman who builds a plantation in Choctaw territory only to watch i Title: Jordan County Author: Foote, Shelby Publisher: Random House Inc Publication Date: 1992/06/01 Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: 91050723
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(Before Shelby Foote under took his epic history of the Ci...)
Before Shelby Foote under took his epic history of the Civil War, he wrote this fictional chronicle -- "a landscape in narrative" -- of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock formations. The seven stories in Jordan County move backward in time, from 1950 to 1797, and through the lives of characters as diverse as a black horn player doomed by tuberculosis and convulsive jealousy, a tormented and ineffectual fin-de-siecle aristocrat, and a half-wild frontiersman who builds a plantation in Choctaw territory only to watch it burn at the close of the Civil War. In prose of almost Biblical gravity; and with a deep knowledge of the ways in which history shapes human lives -- and sometimes warps them beyond repair -- Foote gives us an ambitious, troubling work of fiction that builds on the traditions of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor but that is resolutely unique.
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"A fascinating drama...the atmosphere is superbly managed; and on every score, this is a first-rate job of story-telling." -- Philadelphia Inquirer Shelby Foote's magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy. Love in a Dry Season describes an erotic and economic triangle, in which two wealthy and fantastically unhappy Mississippi families -- the Barcrofts and the Carrutherses -- are joined by an open-faced fortune hunter from the North, a man whose ruthlessness is matched only by his inability to understand the people he tries to exploit and his fatal incomprehension of the passions he so casually ignites. Combining a flawless sense of place with a Faulknerian command of the grotesque, Foote's novel turns a small cotton town into a sexual battleground as fatal as Vicksburg or Shiloh -- and one where strategy is no match for instinct and tradition.
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A mesmerizing novel of faith, passion, and murder by the author of The Civil War: A Narrative. Drawing on themes as old as the Bible, Foote's novel compels us to inhabit lives obsessed with sin and starving for redemption. A work reminiscent of both Faulkner and O'Connor, yet utterly original.
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Foote, Shelby was born on November 17, 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi, United States. Son of Shelby Dade and Lillian (Rosenstock) Foote.
Student, University North Carolina, 1937. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University of the South, 1981. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Southwestern University, 1982.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University South Carolina, 1991. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University North Carolina, 1992. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Millsaps University, 1993.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Notre Dame University, 1994. Doctor of Letters (honorary), College William and Mary, 1999. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Loyola University, 1999.
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(Before Shelby Foote under took his epic history of the Ci...)
(Before Shelby Foote undertook his epic history of the Civ...)
(A mesmerizing novel of faith, passion, and murder by the ...)
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("A fascinating drama...the atmosphere is superbly managed...)
Member academic advisory board United States Naval Academy, 1988-1989. Member American Academy Arts and Letters, Fellowship of Southern Writers, society American Historians.
Married Gwyn Rainer, September 5, 1956. Children: Margaret Shelby, Huger Lee.