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<p><br>ginny, Who Marries Tom At The Turn Of The Century After Her Family Has Given Up On Her Ever Marrying, Narrates The Truest Pleasure--the Story Of Their Life Together On Her Father's Farm In The Western North Carolina Mountains. They Have A Lot In Common--love Of The Land And Fathers Who Fought In The Civil War. Tom's Father Died In The War, But Ginny's Father Came Back To Western North Carolina To Hold On To The Farm And Turn A Profit. Ginny's Was A Childhood Of Relative Security, Tom's One Of Landlessness. Truth Be Known--and They Both Know It--their Marriage Is Mutually Beneficial In Purely Practical Terms. Tom Wants Land To Call His Own. Ginny Knows She Can't Manage Her Aging Father's Farm By Herself. But There Is Also Mutual Attraction, And Indeed Their Loving Is Deeply Gratifying. What Keeps Getting In The Way Of It, Though, Are Their Obsessions. Tom Powell's Obsession Is Easy To Understand. He's A Workaholic Who Hoards Time And Money. Ginny Is Obsessed By Pentecostal Preaching. That She Loses Control Of Her Dignity, That She Speaks In Tongues, That She Is Saved, Seem To Her A Blessing And To Tom A Disgrace. It's Not Until Tom Lies Unconscious And At The Mercy Of A Disea

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Author

Robert Morgan

Publisher

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9781565121058

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.83 / 5 (790 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14