Edith Pope - Colcorton
Plume American Woman Writers
1990, a Plume Book / published by the Penguin Group / PenguinsBooks USA inc.
330 pag., isbn 0 452 26324 7
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"'Nineteen miles from nowhere', Colcorton is a small and unprofitable farm on the Florida coast run by the Clanghearne family for three generations. The year is 1938 and Colcorton is now the home of Abby Clanghearne, whose black-eyed, strongfeatured face always looks 'as if she were going into battle and knew that te Lord was on her side.' But Abby's small victories are hard-won, for as she struggles to keep the decaying farm alive and put her beloved younger brother, Jared, through law school, she must also guard vigilantly over an ever-threatening family secret. When Jared is killed, leaving his wife and son in her care, Abby must protect the boy against questions raised about his heritage. A vivid, moving novel about race and pride, family and love, COLCORTON offers a wrenching portrait of a woman tragically haunted by events that took place long before her birth.
Its publication in 1944 was one of the earliest indications of a revival of the Southern literary conscience, as Edith Pope deals openly and directly with the inflammatory issues of prejudice, miscegenation and self-hatred."
