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Water from the Well

Water from the Well

McLarey, Myra

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ISBN10: 0802137164
ISBN13: 9780802137166
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: Mar 27 2000
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.23
Language: English
Acclaimed by The Boston Book Review as incantatory ... poetic and magical, Water from the Well is a novel forged in the soul of community. Set in rural Arkansas, it opens in 1919 with a cow-pasture ball game between the whites of Sugars Springs and the coloreds of neighboring Bethel, a game that shakes the town's delicate racial balance. One year later, a cyclone visits destruction on black and white, female and male, villain and victim. Rich with image and sparkling with humor and compassion, Water from the Well is a story of ex-slaves, displaced Yankees, rapists, healers, small-town sheriffs led into temptation, and the rich weave of a century of community history. Boldly idiosyncratic and folksy ... characters and their stories emerge with the intimacy of personal memory. -- Richard Bausch, The New York Times Book Review; Entertaining, touching, celebratory, and absolutely pitch-perfect. -- Sandra Scofield, The Philadelphia Inquirer

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