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On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

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Sprawling in its scope but heartbreakingly exact in its depiction of a family torn apart," On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon" is a magnificent novel in the great Southern tradition. In the year 1900--on the afternoon she suspects might be the last of her long, eventful life--Emma Garnet Tate Lowell sets down on paper what came before, determined to make an honest account of it. Born to privilege on a James River plantation, she grew up determined to escape the domination of her bullying, self-made father, Samuel P. Tate, and ultimately seceded from his control to marry Quincy Lowell, a surgeon and member of the distinguished Boston family. But then came the Civil War. Working alongside Quincy, assisting him in the treatment of wounded soldiers, she witnessed scenes that would be engraved forever in her memory. And, before beginning the long journey of her own reconstruction, she must face the shame of her relationship to her "servants" and learn the terrible secret that shaped her father's life.

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"A master storyteller...Margaret Mitchell's blunderbuss epic...can't hold a sweet-potato candle to these vivid pages." -- "San Francisco Chronicle""Horace said that our stories should aim to instruct and delight...Kaye Gibbons has achieved both on every page." -- Charles Frazier, author of "Cold Mountain" "A novel that will have been worth the wait for Gibbon's fans or anyone else with a passionate interest in the Civil War." -- "Portland Oregonian" "Haunting...a rare jewel...Kaye Gibbons has gone from being a wonderful, fascinating novelist to a national treasure." -- "San Antonio Express-News" "An occasion for even more accolades."-- "Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A master storyteller ... Kaye Gibbons' new novel is, above all, a story of how Southern women suffered and endured the deprivations of the home front during the Civil War. But it is so much more. It is also a love story that will compete with any historical romance you care to name, a dazzlingly authentic period novel, and an unflinching literary indictment of the prideful landowners, politicians, and generals who gave birth to the War Between the States ... Margaret Mitchell's blunderbuss epic... can't hold a sweet potato candle to these vivid pages."-- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "A master storyteller ... Kaye Gibbons' new novel is, above all, a story of how Southern women suffered and endured the deprivations of the home front during the Civil War. But it is so much more. It is also a love story that will compete with any historical romance you care to name, a dazzlingly authentic period novel, and an unflinching literary indictment of the prideful landowners, politicians, and generals who gave birth to the War Between the States ... Margaret Mitchell's blunderbuss epic... can't hold a sweet potato candle to these vivid pages."-- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780380732142
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Publisher Imprint: Harper Perennial
  • Height: 204 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 134 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0380732149
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 1999
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 245 gr


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