Sallie Bingham

The Blue Box (eBook, ePUB)

Three Lives in Letters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A memoir of three generations of women rich in historical detail" -from the Civil War to the Jazz Age (Kirkus Reviews) Shortly after her mother's death in 2011, Sallie Bingham discovered a blue box in her mother's closet containing the forgotten remnants of her foremothers' lives. From her great-grandmother Sallie, was a gilded memoir written for her children during her final years; from her grandmother, Helena, a book of short stories she'd published called Legends of Virginia; and her mother, Mary, had left behind a grand romance in letters documenting her four-year courtship to the man who'd become Sallie Bingham's father. Long before Sallie knew the details of these women's lives she recognized the steel thread that ran through their personalities: resilience and indomitability. But to what extent did this steel thread tie up their secrets? How closely linked were their unquestioned feelings of Southern superiority-social, racial, moral, intellectual-to their ability to survive, even flourish, as their fortunes sank and rose? For years, Sallie could only speculate. Out of this astonishing 150-year treasure trove, Sallie Bingham has woven "more than a memoir; it's an historical account of the legacies, heritages and travails of three generations of Southern women . . . in the living language of complex and exquisitely-preserved letters. Sallie Bingham's meticulous and comprehensive work gives us a glimpse into another world-previously frozen in a 'cornflower blue' time capsule" (Bowling Green Daily News).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sarabande Books
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781936747870
• Artikelnr.: 41148022

Autorenporträt

Sallie Bingham has published four short story collections, four novels, a memoir, and several plays. Bingham was a director of the National Book Critics Circle, and founded the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Sallie Bingham Archive for Women's Papers and Culture at Duke University.