[bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish List
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:06:30 -0600
Jim,
I have The Foxes of Harrow and it appears to be a beautiful scan. I want to
read it, so it will get the TLC treatment. It was beautifully written. I
read a hand copied Braille version of it a long time ago. Frank Yerby
created a real masterpiece with this one! It is long, so it will take me
awhile, but when I upload it all the Yerby fans will be pleased with it.
Thanks for scanning this beautifully written book!
Sue S.
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From: jbaugh
To: Bksvol-Discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 4:52 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Wish List
Just submitted The Foxes of Harrew by Frank Yerby
From the inside flaps
Stephen Fox was a professional gambler and reckless adventurer; he arrived
in New Orleans in 1825 with a ten-dollar gold piece, a pearl stick-pin and a
dream. He was tall, red-haired, with a face that brought visions of both
pride and insolence, a man determined to make his fortune the fastest way
possible.
Within a week of his arrival, his eyes were opened to stakes larger than the
gaming tables ever offered. The rich sugar plantations along the river, the
grand elegance of their French owners, their richly-gowned ladies—all
spurred him with envy and ambition. And before long, Stephen Fox saw his
chance and took it, taking power from an indolent, slave-ridden, castebound
people. He gambled and won, building Harrow, Louisiana's richest plantation.
With brashness and daring he carved himself an empire, but he foolishly
allowed it to become dominated by three handsome women who engulfed and!
threatened to destroy Him..... Odalie, his aristocratic but remote wife;
Aurore, his sister-in-law, hopelessly waiting to succeed her sister in his
affections; Desiree, the voluptuous quadroon, suffering despair and social
ostracism to be near him.
A superb reconstruction of this passionate era, THE FOXES OF HARROW brings
vividly to life the troubled, yet luxurious times of the pre-Civil War
South, dramatically revealed in this stirring chronicle of an arrogant
dynasty.
Jim B
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