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The Last of the Southern Girls: A Novel (Voices of the South) Paperback - 1994
by Morris, Willie
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Carol Hollywell, a Scarlett O'Hara of the 1950s, sets Washington, D.C., on its ear. Willie Morris's cleverly executed novel (loosely based on a real-life figure) paints a devastatingly accurate portrait, not only of a power-hungry woman, but also of the society that feeds such hunger. Morris is the author of several books, including North Toward Home and New York Days.
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- Title The Last of the Southern Girls: A Novel (Voices of the South)
- Author Morris, Willie
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher LSU Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.
- Date 1994-08-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0807119563.G
- ISBN 9780807119563 / 0807119563
- Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 5.55 x 0.66 in (21.64 x 14.10 x 1.68 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Library of Congress subjects Southern States - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 72011040
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Carol Hollywell is beautiful, smart, elegant, and charming. A debutante from De Soto Point, Arkansas, and a recent graduate of Ole Miss, she is heir to a good southern name and a small southern fortune. She knows what she wants and, more important, knows how to get it. She is, in other words, the prototypical southern belle, a Scarlett O'Hara for the 1950s, and when she moves to Washington, D.C., in 1957, she sets, the town on its ear. Willie Morris' cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed novel (loosely based on a real-life figure) follows this headstrong woman from her arrival in the Capital and traces the ups and downs of her life in the political and social whirl of the city over the next decade and a half. Eventually, she becomes romantically involved with a prominent congressman - an idealist, a reformer, a man perhaps headed for the very pinnacle of political life. It is at first a dazzling alliance, yet the genuine satisfactions they find in their relationship cannot long withstand the pressures of the ambitions both of them harbor. The very drives that initially brought them together in the end propel their love affair into jeopardy. Morris paints a devastatingly accurate portrait not only of a power-hungry woman but also of the society that feeds such hunger. His descriptions of Washington and its denizens - the politicos, the journalists, the socialities, and the hangers-on - are nothing short of breathtaking.
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- Library Journal, 05/15/1995, Page 100