[bksvol-discuss] Re: Seeking proofreader for Gail Godwin
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:21:58 -0800 (PST)
Shannon, I have 5 already in my pile, but if no one else offers to proof the
book, I'd be happy to do it . I could move it before some of the longer, more
complicated nonficti.but it will still take quite a while before I can get to
it.
Cindy
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--- On Sat, 1/30/10, solsticesinger <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: solsticesinger <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Seeking proofreader for Gail Godwin
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 10:33 AM
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> I have A Southern Family
> by Gail Godwin here to
> scan. It's a big book, approximately 540 pages, but
> appears to be straight text.
> So, it should scan well.
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> I'm including a
> synopsis below. If anyone is
> interested in proofing, please contact:
> solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx
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> Here's the
> synopsis:
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> ``All families have themselves
> problems,'' says Snow Mullins, one of
> the marvelously defined characters in this rich, rewarding
> novel, surely
> Godwin's best to date. Snow herself is one of the Quick
> family's problems: Theo
> Quick has married the uneducated (but shrewd) hillbilly
> woman to the chagrin of
> his upper-middle-class parents and siblings. Ralph and Lily
> Quick are not role
> models: their marriage has been deteriorating for many
> years, and their house on
> Quick's Hill in Mountain City, S.C., mirrors both their
> aspiring gentility and
> general decline. When Theo, separated from Snow, shoots
> another woman who
> apparently has rejected him, the shocking and never fully
> explained event is a
> catalyst for many changes and insights in the
> survivors' lives. Both Clare
> Quick, Lily's daughter by a first marriage, and Rafe,
> the younger brother, are
> plagued with guilt over their failures to heed Theo's
> desperation. Throughout
> the leisurely narrative, Godwin examines the traditional
> concept of family, and
> speculates on filial duty versus the need to live an
> independent life; she
> comments on Southerners as a particular breed, on the
> solace of Catholicism, and
> on the essential inscrutability of human relationships.
> Because Clare is a
> successful author who muses about her craft, one is very
> conscious of a writer's
> sensibility here. ``The kind of fiction I was trying to
> write,'' Clare says, is
> deep breathing, reflective and with . . . a patience for
> detail.'' She also
> refers to the quality of ``compassionate
> understanding.'' Those words describe
> this wise, humane, immensely appealing novel very
> well.
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