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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 2 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | When Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail was first published in 1983, it was named the best first novel of the year by USA Today. Set in the tobacco country of North Carolina in 1937, the story is told through the voice of Roxy Walston, the 20-year-old daughter of the town undertaker, wife of a struggling tobacco farmer, and mother of a two-year-old. When Jack Ruffin, a wanderer looking for work, is sent out to the farm to help Roxy's husband, things are set in place that change Roxy's life forever. "With this absorbing first novel we meet an author richly endowed and sure of her way. She puts to her use an honest, accurate and selective eye, a dramatic sense very much alive, and best of all a sensitivity to the pull and charm and magnetism, even fatality, of human characters whom life has thrown together in their time and place." Eudora Welty "A masterpiece, a jewel, an utterly brilliant piece of work." Los Angeles Times "Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail sets us on fire." New York Times "A breathtakingly accomplished piece of work." Washington Post | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Louise Shivers | | Paperback: | 145 pages | | Publisher: | John F Blair Pub | | Publication Date: | 2003-03 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 089587282X | | Product Length: | 7.66 inches | | Product Width: | 5.0 inches | | Product Height: | 0.51 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.38 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.66 inches | | Package Width: | 5.0 inches | | Package Height: | 0.51 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.38 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 4 reviews |
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| | Features | ISBN13: 9780895872821Condition: USED - Very GoodNotes: 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
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8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
A literary gem! Jan 29, 2000
By pegmarsh
Years ago at a writers' conference in South Georgia, I met Ms. Shivers. She read an excerpt from her tiny novel and I was hooked. Now I read it often, especially when I've had to be around people who butcher the english language. Shiver's beautiful prose is like a soothing salve. Ex: "There were trees along the main street, real tall elms as old and lofty as the Confederate monument on top of the mound in Elmwood Cemetery. In the summers any little stir from the branches fanned the cured tobacco smell from the warehouses and sealed it over the center of town like a jar lid." Now, who in their right mind, after reading those words, wouldn't want to catch the next bus to North Carolina just to find such a place? Shivers writes like she's sitting in a porch swing, talking. Don't have time for a long book? Pick up a copy of this little jewel. Its rich, southern voice will lure you in and you won't want it to end!
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Earthy Brilliance Jan 09, 2000
This obscure novel is one of the best books I've ever read (and I've read many, all genres). In a deceptively simple story of an illicit love in tobacco country, the author deals with the deepest mysteries of life, death, and redemption. I wish Louise Shivers were more prolific, and so will you after you read this slender but astonishing book.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Prose to die for! May 21, 1998
If you read only one book this year, make sure it's Louise Shiver's lovely little book. Yes, it's out of print, but worth the effort to hunt for. There is a treasure awaiting whoever goes to the trouble. I heard Ms. Shivers read an excerpt from this book when it first came out, and the memory still brings up a sense of incredulity at the beauty of the language she used. I consider it among the top 3 favorite books I've ever read. Get it! Read it! Then read it again. . . . and again. . .!
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Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail Apr 28, 2011
By TCocolin
I read this books years ago and could not put it down. I have never forgotten what a wonderful book it was. Being raised on a tobacco farm and married a tobacco farmer, (I was a Thomas then, as there were no Cocolin's around at that time) I could so plainly see the scenes as she wrote them. Worth anyone's money!!
I have begun writing after my retirement. The book already published (The Last Rose of Summer) also took place on a tobacco farm, and there was a murder involved also in my book. Hope it does as well as Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail.
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