A Circuit Rider's Wife: A Novel (Brown Thrasher Books) - Softcover

Harris, Corra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820320129 ISBN 13: 9780820320120

Verlag: UNIV OF GEORGIA PR, 1998

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A thinly veiled autobiographical account of one woman's austere life in the north Georgia mountains, A Circuit Rider's Wife draws on the years Corra Harris accompanied her husband in his work as a Methodist missionary. Set mostly in the fictional Redwine circuit, the novel tells of the challenges, hardships, and--aside from the occasional homemade or homegrown donations--mostly intangible rewards of itinerant country preaching.

Through the eyes of Elizabeth Thompson, the circuit rider's wife and narrator, Harris offers a witty but caring assessment of the sometimes fine differences between spiritual and merely religious folks, town and country society, backsliders and straight-and-narrow plodders, Methodists and Baptists, and heaven and hell.

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Corra Harris (1869-1935) was a native Georgian. A Circuit Rider's Wife has been included in several anthologies and was the basis for the 1951 film I'd Climb the Highest Mountain.

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Drawn from firsthand experience, A Circuit Rider's Wife is the fictionalized account of how Corra Harris sometimes followed, sometimes guided her husband through his missionary work in the north Georgia mountains. All along the hard-scrabble Redwine circuit the story vividly brings alive the strivings and strayings of an itinerant country preacher's restless flocks with warmth and humor.

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• Verlag: UNIV OF GEORGIA PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0820320129
• ISBN 13: 9780820320120
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
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