Lowcountry Book Review
'Eden Rise' depicts issues of South
"Eden Rise," by Robert J. Norrell. NewSouth Books, 288 pages. $27.95
Lowcountry Book Review
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LOWCOUNTRY BOOK REVIEW
Explore the life of John Brown, the man who helped spark the Civil War
"Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War," Tony Horwitz. Picador, Henry Holt & Co. 365 pages. $18.
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LOWCOUNTRY BOOK REVIEW
Southern author writes about the books that mattered
The Books That Mattered, by Frye Gaillard. New South Books. 206 pages. $27.95
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LOWCOUNTRY BOOK REVIEW
'Fallout' falls short in the drama department
The action of this timely novel revolves around four groups of people in the small town of Winston, W.Va. Their stories seem separate yet will come together with considerable impact. We first meet police chief J.P. Holt who, while bottom-fishing for catfish in the Ohio River, pulls up a decomposed...
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LOWCOUNTRY BOOK REVIEW
Author Wiley Cash soars in debut novel "A Land More Kind Than Home"
This beautifully written first novel heralds the arrival of a major talent. Author Wiley Cash tells "A Land More Kind Than Home" through the voices of three residents of a small North Carolina mountain town near Asheville that Cash calls Marshall. They are an elderly spinster who has seen a lot ...
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LOWCOUNTRY BOOK REVIEW
Book review: Can't help but get swept up in "Heading Out to Wonderful"
"Heading Out to Wonderful," by Robert Goolrick, takes place in 1948 in Brownsville, Va., a typical small Southern town. "The notion of being happy didn't occur to most people. ... They just accepted their lot, these 500 or so men, women and children, black and white, the blacks knowing their place...
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LOWCOUNTRY BOOK REVIEW
'The Girl Who Fell from the Sky' a remarkable, telling novel
America always has been referred to as a melting pot, with Irish marrying Italians and Poles marrying Greeks, but in recent years the mixture has changed. Increasingly, and this is borne out by studies of both the North and South, white people and black people are getting married. Less than 50 years...
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LIFE AND TIMES
'Stories from the South' expose pain
This is the 25th anniversary edition of this anthology, and the 20th I've reviewed, and it seems to me that the picture it paints of life in the South today is getting a good bit bleaker. The writing is first rate, as always, but most of the people we meet here seem to be living lives of quiet and...
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