Horse people: stories
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1. Verfasser: Holladay, Cary C. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press c2013
Schriftenreihe:Yellow shoe fiction
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The year in parentheses indicates the time of the major action in each story. Rapidan, Virginia -- The bridge (1861) -- A summer place (1889) -- Sons (1910) -- Monstrosities (1920) -- Nelle on the grass (1932) -- The colored horse show (1945) -- Worlds (1950) -- Hollyhocks (1953) -- Horse people (1927)
Set in the pastoral horse country of Rapidan, Virginia, the stories in Cary Holladay's Horse People chronicle the lives of the Fenton family through the Civil War, the Great Depression, and World War II. At the center of these interconnected stories is Nelle, a northern debutante who marries into the Fenton family and establishes herself as their stern and combative matriarch. Nelle's arrival in Virginia sets up the familial conflict: The Fentons, though well-respected millers and horse-breeders, remain yeoman farmers, whereas Nelle grew up in a wealthy, urban environment. Her high-brow sensibi
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