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| Original Title: | Raintree County |
| ISBN: | 014023666X (ISBN13: 9780140236668) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Indiana(United States) |
Ross Lockridge Jr.
Paperback | Pages: 1088 pages Rating: 3.95 | 911 Users | 76 Reviews
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Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life—from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics of the Gilded Age, to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father. Shawnessy is the epitome of the place and period in which he lives, a rural land of springlike women, shady gamblers, wandering vagabonds, and soapbox orators. Yet here on the banks of the Shawmucky River, which weaves its primitive course through Raintree County, Indiana, he also feels and obeys ancient rhythms. A number-one bestseller when it was first published in 1948, this powerful novel is a compelling vision of 19th-century America with timeless resonance.
List Appertaining To Books Raintree County
| Title | : | Raintree County |
| Author | : | Ross Lockridge Jr. |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1088 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1994 by Penguin Books (first published January 1st 1948) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Classics. Novels |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 911 Users | 76 ReviewsCriticism Appertaining To Books Raintree County
As of now, the greatest book I've ever read.See my review on my book blog: http://quirkyreader.livejournal.com/4...
Some reviewer wrote that the author knew a lot of words and used them all in Raintree County. It's true, on occasion he could have benefited from a more careful editor, but with the exception of a few tedious passages, I was very happy with this novel. It was creative, interesting, and thoughtful. The main character, Johnny Shawnessey, is a complex person. This is a good thing because the book is 1060 pages and it darn well better be gripping. I enjoyed the conceit of the entire novel spanning
This is an ambitious work, probably a conscious attempt at achieving the elusive Great American Novel. My copy is old, with small print that doesn't contrast well on somewhat yellowed pages -- and so my first reaction on picking it up was to question whether reading it would be worth the trouble. A few paragraphs in, the intelligent, sculpted prose settled that.Still, I agree with reviewers who say the book is too long. My edition is 985 pages and by the time I got into the last few hundred I
I have a first edition of this. Great story! Love, loss, friendship, war; it has it all and is written perfectly.
This is a hard book to review: it will definitely not be everybody's cup of tea. I had started it once years before, then set it aside, and finally read it at a point in my life when I had the time and the patience. It is massive! But I've never read anything at all like it. It's about America and Americans, Time, Fantasy, the 19th Century, and lots more. Ultimately I found it to be a fascinating, provocative, and important work of American literature. At this point in time the 1957 MGM movie
Whew. I suppose this is a "classic", but what a tough read for me! At first I was intrigued by the construction of the story, bouncing between the different times in Shawnessy's life (and other characters). But around two-thirds through, there started to be a lot of long repetitive paragraphs that seemed to glorify youth, dreams, "the Republic", yada yada yada. A little of that would have been fine, but in the last 200 pages I found myself speed-reading (i.e. scanning) through those parts. The
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