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This Crooked Way
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This Crooked Way Paperback - 2012

by Elizabeth Spencer

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Elizabeth Spencer presents a vital, moving story set in the deep South -the Delta and Mississippi hill country. Amos Dudley was a farm boy in the Delta country at the turn of the century until he started working for his brother Ephraim
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  • Title This Crooked Way
  • Author Elizabeth Spencer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi
  • Date 2012-02-16
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9781617032189_pod
  • ISBN 9781617032189 / 1617032182
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.25 x 0.58 in (20.32 x 13.34 x 1.47 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Mississippi
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011043919
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

Elizabeth Spencer presents a vital, moving story set in the deep South--the Delta and Mississippi Hill Country. Amos Dudley was a farm boy in the Delta at the turn of the century until he started working for his brother Ephraim in the store by the railroad. It was an ordinary enough environment in which to begin to feel the strange forces that move a man to set his course in the world.

But the forces working within Amos were by no means ordinary. Sometimes cruel, sometimes suddenly tender, they were strong and willful, so that Amos became a man to reckon with--to Ary, his beautiful, plantation-born wife, to the woman in the bayou, to the shiftless philosopher, Arney. Even the rich, black swamp soil which he wrested from the forest and gave to his cotton seemed to respond with awe and eagerness to Amos's will. His sensuous, wayward daughter and the man she loved especially felt the full shattering drama of the violence which had evidently been building--building in the fate of a man who, regardless, takes his own crooked way.

From the rear cover

A classic novel of one man's will and the under-current of violence in the Mississippi Delta

About the author

Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) is author of nine novels, seven collections of short stories, a memoir, and a play. Her novella The Light in the Piazza (1960) was adapted for the screen in 1962 and transformed into a Broadway musical of the same name in 2005. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

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