Visible Spirits - Softcover

Yarbrough, Steve

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ISBN 10: 0330486381 ISBN 13: 9780330486385

Verlag: Picador, 2002

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Set in Mississippi during the 1900s, Visible Spirits tells of two brothers, Leighton and Tandy Payne, and the haunting legacy of their tough planter father Sam. Leighton, the elder, sold the old plantation as soon as his father died and moved to the nearby town of Loring. A good and well-respected man, he’s Loring’s mayor and editor of the local paper. As the story opens his brother, Tandy, rolls back into town after being run out of New Orleans. Relations between the two are more than difficult, for though Leighton feels contempt for Tandy, he also fears him. Quite rightly, for Tandy’s smallest actions seem to unleash the repressed hysteria and violence of the deep South during Reconstruction. His immediate target is the black postmistress, a woman who grew up on his father’s plantation. As the plot unfolds it simultaneously looks to the past, slowly unravelling the dark mystery at the heart of old Sam Payne’s plantation. ‘Yarbrough’s story, full of well-rounded characters wrestling with family secrets and sexual jealousy, is compelling throughout’ The Times

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"A powerful tale . . . a skillful interweaving of complicated relationships to family and history." -"The Washington Post Book World" "A compelling look at moral courage. . . . The place, events, and emotions are so authentic, it's hard to believe the story is fiction." -"USA Today" "Invites comparison with Faulkner's greatest novels." -"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution""Perceptive, finely wrought . . . captures post-Reconstruction Mississippi, caught between the promise of progress and a lament for the antebellum order." -"Vogue"