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Title: The Woman Who Would Not Die
Author: Wm. Richard Dempsey
Category: Literature & Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Literature & Fiction
Price: $7.00
Language: English
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Number of Pages: 310
ISBN Number: 978-1-60458-262-8 51195
Publication Date: March, 2008
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Email: richardd@nettally.com |
About this Book: |
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The Woman Who Would Not Die is a powerful story of the South in transition, told by a masterful storyteller and witness to Southern life of the last century.
A young woman suffers incest. The baby is abandoned, eventually to die an alcoholic in the town dump. Young lovers are kept apart forever. Leda Roess manipulates the lives of all around her with an unforgiving hand. This is the world Franklin Judd inherits and from which he struggles all his life to escape. When taken hostage with his dad and Bill King at a hunting cabin deep in a north Florida swamp, all four men, including the gunman, discover they've been victims of Grandma Roess. But she's dead, except to Franklin. Her secrets become his secrets and haunt his days and nights, until . . . In the end, all that's left to do is tell the story.
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About the Author: |
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Wm. Richard Dempsey is a former professor and retired intelligence officer who grew up in rural Florida. A graduate of The George Washington University, he is the author of Fletcher's Lure, a trilogy of novels about three generations of one Southern family, and of Dusted Horsemen, a book of poems and reflections.
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Book Review: |
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Vivid characters and authentic dialogue mark this story of Southern folkways in the 20th century and of the twin influences of race and religion, both subtle and stark, on individual behavior. The character of Grandma Roess dominates the story from beginning to end, driving the plot even after her untimely death and moving the lives of everyone who fell within her circle. At the end, it takes the intervention of an outsider of gentle persuasion and insight to expose the secrets at the core of her motivation and to reveal the simple means of escaping the trap that rural Southern culture had become.
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Order/Contact Info: |
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Contact the author at richardd@nettally.com.
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