A Circuit Rider's Wife

von Corra Harris

362 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A thinly veiled autobiographical account of one woman's austere life in the north Georgia mountains, A Circuit Rider's Wife draws on the years Corra Harris accompanied her husband in his work as a Methodist missionary. Set mostly in the fictional Redwine circuit, the novel tells of the challenges, hardships, and--aside from the occasional homemade or homegrown donations--mostly intangible rewards of itinerant country preaching.

Through the eyes of Elizabeth Thompson, the circuit rider's wife and narrator, Harris offers a witty but caring assessment of the sometimes fine differences between spiritual and merely religious folks, town and country society, backsliders and straight-and-narrow plodders, Methodists and Baptists, and heaven and hell.

• Reihe: University of Georgia Press
• ISBN: 9780820320120
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.1998
• Größe: 217 x 141 mm
• Verlag: Longleaf on behalf of Univ of Georgia Press