WHERE LOVE RULES

by Elizabeth Nell Dubus ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 8, 1985

Huey Long, family feuds, sex, insanity, Standard Oil, the Ku Klux Klan, money, power, and star-crossed love all figure in this historical romance--a sequel to Cajun (1983). The story opens in Louisiana plantation country in 1916. Two families--one headed by the respected but Cajun (nonaristocratic) Claude Langlinais, the other by the upper-crust but contemptible Charles Lauvidais--are engaged in a bitter feud that has erupted with the discovery of oil and ends only with the marriage of their children, Beau and Caroline, and the death of Charles. In between is a chronicle of despair (Beau's first wife becomes a religious fanatic, unable to care for her children), the playing out of human passions (after trying to rape Claude's wife, Charles turns to Claude's 17-year-old daughter, who dies following an abortion), and the story of Huey Long's corrupt but fascinating rise to power in Louisiana politics. Here, as in most books of its genre, character development is minimal, taking third place to plot and to historical name/place-dropping. But like the better books of its kind, it's been well researched--and the romance is fast-paced, well written, with much Sturm und Drang and an ending that will satisfy those born to weep.

Pub Date: July 8, 1985

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Putnam

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1985

Categories: FICTION