Audio Reviews:"Rawlings, best known
for her novel The Yearling, displays her talent for portraying the Florida
cracker in wonderful backwoods vernacular in these eight stories. Melissa Hughes'
dialect and reading sounds just as though she were telling the stories herself.
Highly recommended."
-Library Journal "Thanks to Audio Bookshelf for publishing
this third book in the series Voices: A Treasury of Regional American Fiction."
-AudioFile "The stories as a group are realistic, psychologically
accurate and politically aware: many focus on the issues of race and gender in
a way that makes them ahead of their time."
-Kliatt "The stories are greatly enhanced by Hughes, who has
an exceptional gift for accents."
-Boston Sunday Herald SYNOPSIS:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
held the soul of central Florida in the 30's and 40's in the palm of her hand,
using her stories to vividly paint the realities of class, race and community.
A formidable personality herself, Rawlings employed her sense of humor and uncanny
insightfulness to portray neighbors and strangers alike struggling to endure with
dignity. This audiobook begins with a thumbnail sketch of the author. Stories
included are: The Pelican's Shadow, Black Secret, The Pardon,
In the Heart, Jessamine Springs, Benny and the Birddogs,
Cracker Chidlings, Gal Young Un.
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