A collection of stories centering around characters whose lives are painfully slipping through their fingers

Distant Friends and Intimate Strangers

East, Charles

Literature & Fiction

University of Illinois Press

Born into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January 1862, nine months after the start of the Civil War. She was soon to experience a coming-of-age filled with the turmoil and upheaval that devastated the wartime South. She set down the Remarkable events of the war in a record that remains one of the most vivid, evocative portrayals in existence of a time and place that today make up a crucial chapter in our national history. Sarah Morgan herself emerges as one of the most memorable nineteenth-century women in fiction or nonfiction, a young woman of intelligence and fortitude, as well as of high spirits and passion, who questioned the society into which she was born and the meaning of the war for ordinary families like her own and for the divided nation as a whole. Now published in its entirety for the first time, Sarah Morgan's classic account brings the Civil War and the Old South to life with all the freshness and immediacy of great literature.

Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Touchstone

In these 15 stories, most of them set in the Mississippi Delta, Charles East sets out to capture the tenor and pace of small-town life in the South of the 1930s and 1940s. A particular trait of some of his characters is an unwillingness to accept change and then to have to face what change brings.

Where the Music Was: Stories

United States

Univ of Georgia Pr

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