Raintree County (1948) - Ross Lockridge
Category: Classic
Narrator: Lloyd James
Tags: Classic, Historical Fiction, Adults
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Release date: January 20, 2009 Duration: 43:06:34, Another forgotten classic, A number-one bestseller when it was first published in 1948, this powerful novel is a compelling vision of nineteenth-century America with timeless resonance., Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his lifefrom the battles of the Civil War to the politics of the Gilded Age, from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father., Shawnessy is the epitome of the place and period in which he lives, a rural land of springlike women, shady gamblers, wandering vagabonds, and soapbox orators. Yet here on the banks of the Shawmucky River, which weaves its primitive course through Raintree County, Indiana, he also feels and obeys ancient rhythms., This panoramic epic of the nineteenth century in Raintree Countyparticularly of the Civil War and its effectswas produced after six years of research, writ
