Description: Shelby Footes magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy.Love in a Dry Seasondescribes an erotic and economic triangle in which two wealthy and fantastically unhappy Mississippi families are joined by an open-faced fortune hunter from the North, a mans whose ruthlessness is matched only by his inability to understand the people he tries to exploit and his fatal incomprehension of the passions he so causally ignites. Combining a flawless sense of place with a Faulknerian command of the grotesque, Footes novel turns a small cotton town into a sexual battleground as fatal as Vicksburg or Shilohand one where strategy is no match for instinct and tradition.
Brief description:
Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.
Review Quotes:
"With impeccable detail, Foote delves into the moral decay of the American moneyed class. [Grover Gardner's] performance lends an amused presence to Foote's scenario. [Gardner] precisely captures Jeff and Amy's pretense of virtue, the Major's disdain for those he considers below him, and the fading values of the next and future generations."
-- "AudioFile"