LEBANON

by Caroline Miller ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 14, 1944

Pulitzer Prize winner of some years back writes another story of the Deep South. Lebanon was the motherless daughter of a Georgia swamp lumberman; nature and hard work had been her schoolteachers -- and it was only whom she met Sabastain and love him that she felt the lack of school learning. But Sebastian was pledged to a Baltimore Belle and saw no way out of it the he too loved Lebanon on sight. Ill-luck followed her; Sebastian's hand was shot off; Lebanon offered herself in marriage to the French barkeeper who took her West, almost to the great river -- and there she nearly lost him to his love of town ways -- but death claimed him and their baby. Then a knife she held accidentally killed a neighbor -- and the townsfolk let their spite and gossip destroy her good name -- and only when the preacher same home, bringing with him one to vouch for her, was she free to start life now with him. A story with emotional values thinly spread -- but a geumitive beauty and rhythm is the telling.

Pub Date: July 14, 1944

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1944

Categories: FICTION