Lamb in His Bosom (Modern Southern Classics) de Caroline Miller

Lamb in His Bosom: Modern Southern Classics

Caroline Miller

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2011

In 1934, Lamb in His Bosom won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. It was the first novel by a Georgia author to win a Pulitzer, soon followed by Gone With the Wind in 1937. In fact, Lamb was largely responsible for the discovery of Gone With the Wind; after reading Miller's novel, Macmillan editor Harold S. Latham sought other southern authors, and found Margaret Mitchell.

Miller was fascinated by the other Old South-the poor people of the south Georgia backwoods, who never owned a slave or planned to fight a war. The story of Cean and Lonzo, a young couple who begin their married lives two decades before the Civil War, this is a fascinating account of social customs and material realities among settlers of the Georgia frontier. At the same time, Lamb in His Bosom transcends regional history as Miller's quietly lyrical prose style pays poignant tribute to a woman's life lived close to nature-the nature outside her and the nature within.

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Richly authentic and lyrically descriptive, "Lamb in His Bosom" pays poignant tribute to a woman's life lived on the line between the nature outside her and the nature within. Married two decades before the Civil War, Cean Smith learns to navigate material and social hardships as she stands witness to cycles of marriage, birth, and death in this transcendent tale of love and loss. "Lamb in His Bosom" received the Pulitzer in 1934.