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Summary: Oh yes Miss Gayle K. Garrison, there is another book!
Review: Lamb in His Bosom is superb, but nonetheless if Gayle K Garrison had done her research she would undoubted have found that Miss Miller did write another novel called 'Lebanon'.
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Summary: Lamb in His Bosom
Review: Lamb in His Bosom! What do you think, when you first hear this title? Most people just think Lamb in His Breast. And for the people who just look at the cover, and don't look at the book ever again, that is all it means. However, if you actually read the book based in Southern Georgia, you learn it's a lot more. You learn that the book travel's through Cean, her husband Lonzo, and the rest of her family; it is a journey for the reader to embark on, one that they will never forget.The story starts out twenty or so years before the Civil War and ends at the end of the Civil War. Through out the novel, you become very close to Cean, and her family which varies so differently person to person. Caroline Miller, the author, write so beautifully in the novel that the black marks on the page seem like people standing next to you for the past twenty years. You'll find yourself slumped in your chair crying over sad events, and at other times on the edge of your seat in great anxiety to move on. Perhaps it is not just the characters that draw you into the book, but the stories/lessons you get from the book. This book is not like the classic type of story with a begining, middle, and end. It is more of just a lot of small stories, so wonderfully woven into one big story. You can tell Miss Miller spent much time writing this, and it took many interviews with people to get the story just the way she wanted it. One last thing I want to comment on before I wrap this review up, is the use of language in the novel. To put it plain and simple, a historian of the pre-Civil War times put Caroline Miller's Lamb in His Bosom, as the "most accurate literature of the time." Overall, the book is terrific. The only bad thing about the novel, is that it ends. Though it is a lengthy 340+ page book, you'll find yourself staying up countless amounts of hours, just reading "one more chapter." It is a shame that this, along with one more novel was the only novels that Caroline Miller had published, though she reportedly had manuscripts never published.
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Summary: A Backwoods Journal
Review: This 1934 winner of the Pulitzer is a delightful read giving a glimps into life on the edge of the Georgia fronter in the middle of the 19th Century. Caroline Miller captures the earthy speech patterns of these people in what I must call an excellent example of regional historical realism. The story centers mostly around Cean and includes the very real and often times tragic lives of those around her. It reads more like a journal rather than a typically developed modern novel. Nonetheless, the lack of a definite plot actually gives the work a tone of authenticity that is most moving.
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