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title: "Love in a Dry Season"
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# Love in a Dry Season

**Brand:** shelby foote
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- **What is this?** Love in a Dry Season by shelby foote
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## Customer Reviews

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    Why is this novel not more famous??
  

*by L***A on Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2015*

Most people seem to come to Shelby Foote's novels after becoming aware of him through his Civil War books. For me it will be the other way around. If anything will get me to read his Civil War histories, it will be because I loved this book so much. I love that he subtly acknowledges towards the end of the novel that he cribbed Amanda from Faulkner, James, and Balzac, giving a kind of knowing wink to his readers. As one reviewer said, I never wanted this book to end. It had a fascinating and well written combination of plots that intersected poignantly, and it had intense, colorful characters ranging in scale from the introverted and soft hearted to the sociopathic and exploitative. This book reminded me at times of East of Eden, which was published a year later. I can't say why exactly. I suppose just the spectrum of human nature played out against a bygone time in America.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Southern Gothic in High Style
  

*by S***L on Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2012*

Shelby Foote is a revelation and a wonder. I knew him, as do most people, from the K. Burns Civil War PBS series; I had no idea he wrote fiction, and had turned out several novels. "Dry Season" was the first one I read, and I think the best. This is Faulkner's material and place without all the Faulknerian drunken excess: Foote stays on topic, makes sense on every page, is not in love with the sound of his own voice, and tells a story that is not predictable.  When you read "Absalom, Absalom", is there any doubt after the first fifty pages or so who Charles Bon really is? I mean come ON ... that plot is as guessable as any by-the-numbers TV drama.  Not so with Foote: he tries harder.I disagree with the reader who said there is no "identifiable" character for the reader in this book. First of all, liking a book because you "identify" with the characters is the stuff of English 101, and better suited to those novels with raised letters on the covers, in the supermarket rack. Secondly, who could not empathize (a better word than "identify") with poor blind Jeff and his horribly curtailed existence? What woman, and I include myself, would not be tempted to cheat on a blind, helpless, and impotent husband, just because it would be so easy? (Of course, acting on the temptation is another matter altogether -- but that's what fiction is for, isn't it). Both main protagonists are fully human, fleshed out to where one can almost see their pores, a welcome contrast to Faulkner's lurid cardboard cutouts and ambulating Symbols. As the accumulation of catastrophes became an avalanche, I began to wish -- perversely, I know -- that the book would never end. I know no higher compliment.

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    Excellent read.
  

*by S***G on Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2014*

Shelby Foote... I love you and your writing.  This is a relatively short novel, for all that it covers about 12 years.  It started off a little slow for me when introducing the characters, but then the language and story telling took over and I couldn't put it down.  The book centers around Harley Drew and his arrival  in Bristol, Mississippi.  He's just not a very nice man...skeezy is an appropriate description... and is always looking for the next way to make a quick buck.  He becomes engaged to a semi-recluse who lives with her father and crazy sister.  The engagement lasts a number of years before it ends in dramatic fashion because he is involved with the wife of one of his business clients.  That relationship also ends in a dramatic way.  I know this is vague - but I'm trying not to give too much of the plot away, which would be easy to do in this review.  :)The end of the story ties up the lives of the characters... no one really has an "and then they lived happily every after" moment, but I feel their lives turn out satisfactorily for them.  It was nice to read a book where the sex scenes weren't minutely described and a great deal was left to the reader's imagination.  I've not yet read anything by Shelby Foote that I didn't like... recommend as a good read for lover's of Southern Literature.

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