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wrote on August 5, 2021
If you are a Conroy follower and haven’t read his 1996 preface to the current printing of Scribner’s and Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, it is a stirring tribute to the years that wrapped the War Between the States, pre-, during and post-. A marvelous essay that captures the spirit of the Lost Cause and all that became of the South, Atlanta and the futility of ante-bellum life. And now, for me, it’s on to reading the 1,000 page tome from 1936 that changed the American literature scene.
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Frank Reedy; I got goosebumps as I almost always do when I read, re-read that preface which we placed in Pat’s collection that became MY READING LIFE (2010) Nothing ever helped me to understand the south in a particular way than that writing… and yet again as the master said:
“American letters will always be tiptoeing nervously around that room where Scarlett O'Hara dresses for the party at Twelve Oaks as the War Between the States begins to inch its way toward Tara.” – Thank you for posting!!
“American letters will always be tiptoeing nervously around that room where Scarlett O'Hara dresses for the party at Twelve Oaks as the War Between the States begins to inch its way toward Tara.” – Thank you for posting!!