Anne Rivers Siddons
Paperback | Pages: 832 pages Rating: 3.91 | 10683 Users | 238 Reviews
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| Title | : | Peachtree Road |
| Author | : | Anne Rivers Siddons |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 832 pages |
| Published | : | August 5th 1998 by HarperTorch (first published November 13th 1989) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. American. Southern. Historical. Historical Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Romance. Contemporary |
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Tenth anniversary edition! Set amidst the grandeur of Old Southern aristocracy, here is a novel that chronicles the turbulent changes of a great city--Atlanta--and tells the story of love and hate between a man and a woman. When Lucy comes to live with her cousin, Sheppard, and his family in the great house on Peachtree Road, she is an only child, never expecting that her reclusive young cousin will become her lifelong confidant and the source of her greatest passion and most terrible need.Identify Books Concering Peachtree Road
| Original Title: | Peachtree Road |
| ISBN: | 0061097233 (ISBN13: 9780061097232) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Appertaining To Books Peachtree Road
Ratings: 3.91 From 10683 Users | 238 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books Peachtree Road
Delicious, but disturbing. I've been sitting here trying to come up with something that would do this novel justice, and honestly, I think that's about right. What else can you say about a book that shocks the hell out of you many times (and not always --or ever-- in a good way) but you devour it?I'll probably catch flack for this review, but here goes. This masterfully written story is the most depressing book I've ever read. It's pages are filled with unrequited love, deliberate withholding of parental love, intentional emotional abuse, incurable insanity that sucks everyone around that individual into the depths of despair, over and over again. Not a single character in this story of unending southern angst achieves true happiness. The woeful ending, is I suppose, appropriate.Why did
Told (not entirely successfully) from a male point of view, Sheppard Gibbs Bondurant, aka Gibby, recounts his relationship with his cousin Lucy. Lucy came to live in Atlanta with her mother and baby brother when she was 5 and Gibby was 7; even then Lucy was haunted by nightmares and was a demanding and clinging child. They grew up in Atlanta society through the 50's and 60's Shep graduated from Princeton and got a job in New York City, vowing he would never return to live in Atlanta in spite of
Growing up in Atlanta off of Peachtree Road, a daughter of the book's generation of Southerners, I found this book compelling reading. Again and again it triggered stories about my grandfather. Although he came from the wrong side of the tracks and far too poor to be one of the "Buckhead boys" of the book, he pulled himself up by "his own bootstraps" to join the ranks of the powerful city aristocracy, especially in the political arena. The book helped me understand my own heritage in new ways,
Having come off another Siddons book just previous to this one, I had very high expectations. Peachtree Road satisfied most of them. I loved the main characters of Shep and Lucy from the first, and their glittering world of privilegeSheps without lifting a finger, and Lucys only through sheer determination. I loved the main supporting characters of Sarah, Charlie, Ben, Jack, Little Lady and even Jacks forbidding parents and Lucys social climbing trash mother. There are at least 50 additional
Very interesting book about several generations of Atlanta Aristocracy and populated with some Dickensian characters. Many an unexpected plot twist abounds!
Some books are just banquets. This is one of them.
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