Description: Houghton Mifflin Company Raintree Country by Ross Lockridge, Jr. Shop Villagelder's Books-N-Games From the dust jacketRaintree Country is an epic novel of heroic proportions. John Wickliff Shawnessy, its hero, is the epitome of the place and period in which he lived, nineteenth-century America, a rural land of vernal women, of farmers, gamblers, wanderers, soldiers, orators, poets, and simple scholars. Here on the banks of the Shawnucky River, which wove a primitive course through Raintree Country in Indiana, in the heart of America, young Johnny Shawnessy studied the classics-Homer and Virgil - in language which had ceased to be the speech of living men, but which had once been, like Johnny's American language, the expression of freedom-the birth-cry of new-born republics. And here, too, in Raintree Country were a young republic, shining waters, and much sunshine, and a young worshiper of the earth... Raintree Country is written by a modern for moderns, but the prevailing mood is that of the century described. Ross Lockridge, Jr., tells his story through the device of a single day embedded with flashbacks. During this epic day, Mr. Shawnessy moves through a stream of past, present, and symbolic events.
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Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: Raintree Country
Author: Ross Lockridge, Jr.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Genre: Historical Fiction, Fiction
