Audio Reviews:
"Rawlings, best known for her novel The Yearling, displays her talent for portraying the Florida cracker in
wonderful backwoods vernacular in these eight stories. Melissa Hughes' dialect
and reading sounds just as though she were telling the stories herself. Highly
recommended."
-Library Journal
"Thanks to Audio Bookshelf for publishing
this third book in the series Voices: A Treasury of Regional American Fiction."
-AudioFile
"The stories as a group are realistic,
psychologically accurate and politically aware: many focus on the issues of race
and gender in a way that makes them ahead of their time."
-Kliatt
"The stories are greatly enhanced by Hughes,
who has an exceptional gift for accents."
-Boston Sunday Herald
SYNOPSIS:
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings held the soul of central
Florida in the 30's and 40's in the palm of her hand, using her stories to vividly
paint the realities of class, race and community. A formidable personality herself,
Rawlings employed her sense of humor and uncanny insightfulness to portray neighbors
and strangers alike struggling to endure with dignity. This audiobook begins with
a thumbnail sketch of the author.
Stories included are: The Pelican's
Shadow, Black Secret, The Pardon, In the Heart, Jessamine
Springs, Benny and the Birddogs, Cracker Chidlings, Gal Young
Un.
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Ages:
15 and up 
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