Steamboat Gothic
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, worn along spine and folds. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings noted. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Set against the lush, moss-draped grandeur of the antebellum American South, Steamboat Gothic chronicles the rise and fall of a Louisiana plantation dynasty across several generations, weaving together ambition, romance, and the inexorable tide of history. Frances Parkinson Keyes immerses the reader in a world of riverboat wealth and Southern aristocracy, where the gleaming paddlewheelers of the Mississippi are as central to the story as the families whose fortunes they carry — and sometimes destroy. Keyes brings her trademark meticulous research and sweeping romantic sensibility to bear on themes of class, legacy, and the seductive illusions of the Old South, painting a portrait of a society simultaneously magnificent and doomed. Her prose is rich with period detail and emotional depth, drawing comparisons to the great tradition of Southern Gothic literature while remaining compulsively readable. For anyone captivated by the romance and tragedy of a vanishing American era, this novel raises a haunting question: what price is too high for a dynasty built on dreams?
Author: Frances Parkinson Keyes
Format: Hardback
Published: 1952, Cassel & Co
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, worn along spine and folds. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings noted. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Set against the lush, moss-draped grandeur of the antebellum American South, Steamboat Gothic chronicles the rise and fall of a Louisiana plantation dynasty across several generations, weaving together ambition, romance, and the inexorable tide of history. Frances Parkinson Keyes immerses the reader in a world of riverboat wealth and Southern aristocracy, where the gleaming paddlewheelers of the Mississippi are as central to the story as the families whose fortunes they carry — and sometimes destroy. Keyes brings her trademark meticulous research and sweeping romantic sensibility to bear on themes of class, legacy, and the seductive illusions of the Old South, painting a portrait of a society simultaneously magnificent and doomed. Her prose is rich with period detail and emotional depth, drawing comparisons to the great tradition of Southern Gothic literature while remaining compulsively readable. For anyone captivated by the romance and tragedy of a vanishing American era, this novel raises a haunting question: what price is too high for a dynasty built on dreams?