Beauty from Ashes

Review"Eugenia Price has made history come to life through the lives of her characters. She has a rare talent and we consider her to be one of our country's greatest authors."--Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter"While it is their emotions, their observations, their wisdom, and their follies that dominate these pages, Price also gives her characters a well-documented historical background."--New York Times Book Review"Ms. Price is without peer as an historical novelist."--Florida Times-UnionProduct DescriptionFor four decades Eugenia Price has shared her love and knowledge of the American South with tens of millions of readers worldwide. From the intimate details of her characters' lives and loves, to the pageant of history that sweeps across the land like a relentless storm, her books contain pure pleasure, and have made her one of the most beloved novelists of our time. Now, in her most captivating novel yet, she follows the fate of one unforgettable woman, as America stands at the brink of civil war...Anne Couper Fraser has often endured sorrow-- the death of her beloved husband and daughter and the loss of the family home. Now, frightening rumors of a war between the states are circulating, and Anne, an ardent Unionist, can only watch and pray as her cherished son enlists in the Confederate Army. But, when the tide of war turns against the Southern cause, Anne finds new strength, fighting to keep her family-- now cruelly divided by war-- bound to each other by faith and love.From Publishers WeeklyIn the concluding volume of her Georgia trilogy, Price writes of a family whose political loyalties are divided by the outbreak of the Civil War.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.About the AuthorEugenia Price is the author of the St. Simons Trilogy, the Florida Trilogy, and the Savannah Quartet, as well as twenty-five other works of fiction and nonfiction. For her trilogy of novels set on St. Simons Island, she was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Governor's Award and the Distinguished Science Award from Georgia College.
Author: Price, Eugenia

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Binding: mass_market

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0312959176

ISBN-13: 9780312959173