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Edith Pope

Auteur van Colcorton

8 Werken 35 Leden 8 Besprekingen

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Fotografie: Florida Memory: State Archives of Florida, N027937

Werken van Edith Pope

Colcorton (1990) 15 exemplaren
River in the wind (1954) 6 exemplaren
Not Magnolia 5 exemplaren
The Biggety Chameleon 3 exemplaren
Half-Holiday 2 exemplaren
Old Lady Esteroy 2 exemplaren

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Cute story about a young chameleon who learns about politeness after having lost his tail.
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janeajones | Oct 24, 2008 |
Half-Holiday (1938) hearkens back to the late 1930s when the businesses in the sleepy Florida town of St. Acacius (St. Augustine) close down on a Thursday afternoon. The fashionable housewives are playing bridge, and Irma Lee Bryson goes off to a tryst with her lover in a hotel. Three men, Jim Bryson, the owner of Bryson’s Nite and Day Garage; Dan Wilder, the part-owner of the St. Acacius News and Paul Leith, a writer, bump into each other at Nip’s Fount of Youth Sweet Shop and decide to borrow a rowboat and go fishing on the river – they don’t return. The novel focuses on the reactions and characters of their wives: Irma Lee Bryson, Phyllis Wilder and Eunice Leith; and on Kate Claire Stuart, the wife of the aviator who flies out to search for the lost men. Once again, Pope reveals a cross-section of women, most of whom are dependent upon their husbands, some for their financial well-being and some for their sense of identity. While this novel doesn’t have the psychological depth of Old Lady Esteroy, it is an appealing window into the times and lives and dilemmas of couples in a very particular time and place.… (meer)
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janeajones | Oct 17, 2008 |
Colcorton is Pope’s most acclaimed and honored work. It was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 (losing to John Hersey’s A Bell for Adano) and received glowing reviews

The Colcorton estate has fallen on hard times. The wind blows through its paneless windows, and the front porch has been sold for lumber to pay school fees. Its lone heirs, Abby and Jared Clanghearne, are orphans, left without the wherewithal to even think about keeping up appearances. Abby, fifteen years old when her father dies, has dreams of restoring the family:

She has scrimped and saved to put Jared through college and law school, and he has landed a job with a law firm in St. Augustine – she sees his future as a state senator. But Jared returns from Tallahassee madly in love and married to a child-bride, Beth, another orphan, who has eloped from an unhappy family situation in Alabama.
Abby’s worst fears come to haunt her. Jared goes to Tallahassee to research a deed for a family friend and returns a changed man. He turns to gambling and drink. When Beth tells Jared of her pregnancy, he becomes even more despondent. Jared’s change of character comes as a result of his discovery of his true identity -- it’s a secret that Abby has kept from Jared all his life, and now Jared keeps his knowledge a secret from Abby – and it is within this toxic secret of race in the Jim Crow society of early twentieth-century Florida that tragedy arises.
… (meer)
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janeajones | 1 andere bespreking | Oct 17, 2008 |
Most of the poems in the volume are short lyrics, cinquains, triolets and sonnets, rather typical of what one would expect from a dreamy young poet in the 1920s. Yet, the long title poem, “The Black Lagoon,” reveals the powers of description that the woman who will become the novelist, Edith Pope, will call upon in her later novels, especially description of the Florida landscape she knows so well.
 
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janeajones | Oct 17, 2008 |

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Werken
8
Leden
35
Populariteit
#405,584
Waardering
3.8
Besprekingen
8
ISBNs
1