John Andrew RiceBesprekingen

1503 I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century, by John Andrew Rice (read 3 Feb 1979) I cannot remember ever before reading a book I knew nothing about--a book whose title I had noted time and again at the Library--and finally read because of its title. This is an odd book--published in 1942 and 1942'ish! The author was born in 1888 in South Carolina, and much of his book is of life in South Carolina. Cotton Ed Smith [long-time U.S. Senator from South Carolina] was his uncle, and the author tells of his family: odd, odd folk. He was a Rhodes scholar, and taught at the University of Nebraska for a time--could not stand his Methodist upbringing--tried to found a college. Weird book, and with all the other things I want to read, it is a little odd I've read it. But 'tis certainly different from what I usually read. The book was a co-winner of Harper's 125th American Award.