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Title: So Red the Rose (Southern Classics Series) by Stark Young ISBN: 1-879941-12-0 Publisher: J. S. Sanders and Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.90 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Sorrow in the Deep South
Comment: A bestseller in 1934, Stark Young's "So Red the Rose" is an odd study of Mississippi plantation life before, during, and after the Civil War. Stark Young was one of America's leading drama critics of the 20th Century (he died in 1963), and his style seems to have been influenced by the dramatists Chekhov (whose plays were translated by Young) and Maeterlinck. There is a dramatis personae at the beginning of the book, which is helpful because there is no protagonist per se. The plot shifts from character to character and many a character is introduced and then never seen again (just as in real life). The narrative in the first half is quite lanquid, as Young describes the aura of dolce far niente at neighboring plantations near Natchez. When the War comes, there are the classic complaints about petty inconveniences and the assurances that the whole thing will be over in a couple of months. But then the antebellum dream is slowly surrounded by the nightmare of war. Mississippi is invaded and Natchez is bombarded. Two of the young men in the families who joined the Confederate Army do not come back: one is killed, the other presumed dead. A patriarch, returning ill from the front, dies of natural causes. A family is given 20 minutes to vacate their mansion before it is burned down. Then, after the War, when their economic system has been obliterated and their properties mortgaged, the families accept it with a bitter resignation. All this is related in a calm, academic manner, and there may be those readers who find the telling a little cold. But I think Young, a refined critic, was determined not to cater to a taste for 1890's melodrama. His style is straightforward but restrained, an appropriate tone for a tale of Southern aristocracy enduring a Civil Reign of Terror.
Rating: 4
Summary: How True the Fiction
Comment: A most enjoyable, fictional, historical account of life in the South during and after the Civil War. Enough truth to make it very believable and the author's descriptive terminology places you in with the characters so that you become very involved with the story personally. A lot of history is learned about Civil War military blunders that certainly effected the outcome of the war. I can understand why they made a movie of this book. It would be a good one to bring back as TV miniseries.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very engaging look into the culture of the antebellum South.
Comment: "So Red the Rose" is a very engaging tale that affords the reader an insight into the culture and attitudes of the antebellum South that became the Confederacy. However, my fellow McGehee descendants (the author was a cousin of actual McGehees in Mississippi) need to bear in mind as they read that this is a NOVEL, not a genealogical register or an entirely true family history.
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Title: Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor ISBN: 1556524048 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Wideacre : A Novel by Philippa Gregory ISBN: 0743249291 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory ISBN: 0743246071 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060740450 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 20 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: None Shall Look Back (Southern Classics Series) by Caroline Gordon ISBN: 1879941112 Publisher: J. S. Sanders and Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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