LORENA

by Frank G. Slaughter ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Georgia, just before Sherman starts to march, brings attractive Yankee Major Carroll to Selby Hall where beautiful Lorena Selby is the chatelaine and efficient manager of the plantation which should have been the responsibility of her irresponsible husband Brad. But Brad who has been wenching with the hired help and denied Lorena the child which would be the only excuse for their marriage, is off again as Carroll offers Lorena protection for the plantation and Lorena insists on paying for it. It is a night of love to remember- and to be remembered when she finds that she is pregnant. Carroll stays on in Georgia, hoping to make his peace with her and with the South and is instrumental in handling the increasing alarms. Finally the Klan moves against Selby Hall and Lorena's ""black bookkeeper"", her faithful servant; Brad, who was reported dead, returns as its Kleagle to terrorize and victimize his own people before his death is really assured.... The postbellum South, fighting the peace, as a background for a period piece costume tailored to feminine contours. For the constantly increasing market- not to be minimized and probably to be outnumbered- since his earlier In A Dark Garden- surely rentable and saleable stuff.

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Publisher: Doubleday

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1959

Categories: FICTION