Anne Rivers Siddons
Paperback | Pages: 832 pages Rating: 3.91 | 10683 Users | 238 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Peachtree Road |
| ISBN: | 0061097233 (ISBN13: 9780061097232) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Tenth anniversary edition! Set amidst the grandeur of Old Southern aristocracy, here is a novel that chronicles the turbulent changes of a great city--Atlanta--and tells the story of love and hate between a man and a woman. When Lucy comes to live with her cousin, Sheppard, and his family in the great house on Peachtree Road, she is an only child, never expecting that her reclusive young cousin will become her lifelong confidant and the source of her greatest passion and most terrible need.Identify Out Of Books Peachtree Road
| Title | : | Peachtree Road |
| Author | : | Anne Rivers Siddons |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 832 pages |
| Published | : | August 5th 1998 by HarperTorch (first published November 13th 1989) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. American. Southern. Historical. Historical Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Romance. Contemporary |
Rating Out Of Books Peachtree Road
Ratings: 3.91 From 10683 Users | 238 ReviewsCommentary Out Of Books Peachtree Road
Delicious, but disturbing. I've been sitting here trying to come up with something that would do this novel justice, and honestly, I think that's about right. What else can you say about a book that shocks the hell out of you many times (and not always --or ever-- in a good way) but you devour it?This book is largely set in Buckhead, where I used to live (1948-1956) and went to school (North Fulton HS 1948-1950). She defines (p.23) Buckhead as stretching from Peachtree Creek on the south to West Paces Ferry Road on the north, from Northside Drive on the west to Peachtree Road on the east. My sense was that it went further east than just Peachtree Road. She gives it an area of some 4 square miles. She mentions Crawford-Long Hospital, where my first child was born. In 1907 the first
I'll probably catch flack for this review, but here goes. This masterfully written story is the most depressing book I've ever read. It's pages are filled with unrequited love, deliberate withholding of parental love, intentional emotional abuse, incurable insanity that sucks everyone around that individual into the depths of despair, over and over again. Not a single character in this story of unending southern angst achieves true happiness. The woeful ending, is I suppose, appropriate.Why did
Yes, I have to agree with The Baltimore Sun's report that Peachtree Road was a love story, a historical novel, a mystery, and a tragedy all wrapped into one. The love/hate relationship which existed between the two main characters, Shep and Lucy, can be compared to a plot found in a Shakespearean tragedy, because in the end they not only destroy themselves but almost everyone else who knew them. However, I do not agree that the book could be seen as another Gone With the Wind! The love/hate
Oh my gosh y'all, I am so sorry to everyone who has ever tried to get me to read this author, but I can't, I just can't. This is my second attempt, I tried to read Low Country about 10 years ago and it just did me in with the verbal diarrhea. Still, people whose literary opinions I like and tend to agree kept telling me how great she is and how I should really read her novels. So I made a valiant effort, but oh my Lord have mercy, why use one word when 2000 will do? The first 150 pages could
A must-read for Atlantans. I read it after I had moved here and it got me interested in Atlanta's rich and colorful history. Everytime I drive Peachtree Road in Buckhead I glance over at the last mansion and think about this great book.
Oh my gosh y'all, I am so sorry to everyone who has ever tried to get me to read this author, but I can't, I just can't. This is my second attempt, I tried to read Low Country about 10 years ago and it just did me in with the verbal diarrhea. Still, people whose literary opinions I like and tend to agree kept telling me how great she is and how I should really read her novels. So I made a valiant effort, but oh my Lord have mercy, why use one word when 2000 will do? The first 150 pages could
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