PARRISH

by Mildred Savage ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Against the contemporary background of Connecticut's tobacco industry, comes this novel of two warring dynasties: one ruled by the sensitive recluse, Sale Post, the last of a great breed, who lives for the land and expects his passionate daughter, Alison, to share his dedication; the other, totally dominated by Judd Raike, a brilliant tyrant who rules over his family and his workers with an iron hand. Into this world of conflict comes eighteen-year-old Parrish MacLean and his beautiful, widowed mother. Parrish, challenged by this industry and by the four women who love him, learns painfully, first to know the people who comprise this world, from the tobacco stained hands who are its roots to the angry gods who control it, and then to know himself and his own capacity to be a man. Parrish is somewhat reminiscent of Edna Ferber's Grant, though it lacks the latter's complexity of these and characterization. Nevertheless it tells its story of love, lust and ambition dramatically, and contains within it, a revealing picture of the little known and fascinating Connecticut industry.

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Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1958

Categories: FICTION