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Hailed as “vivid and unforgettable” by the New York Times Book Review, Gwyn Hyman RubioÂ's Icy Sparks dazzled readers—including Oprah—and became an acclaimed bestseller. Now Rubio offers another sweeping example of Southern storytelling at its finest with The WoodsmanÂ's Daughter. Set in post–Civil War southern Georgia, this is the saga of Dalia Miller, a headstrong beauty who is determined to rise above the sins of her father, a shrewd turpentine farmer haunted by a devastating secret. Brilliantly evoking the majestic estates and humble shantytowns of a South in transition and filled with vibrant characters, this epic page-turner with a spirited heroine at its heart confirms Rubio as “one of the SouthÂ's new treasures” (Lexington Herald-Leader).
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Gwyn Hyman Rubio, author of the bestselling novel Icy Sparks, is a winner of the Cecil Hackney Award as well as a recipient of grants from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation for Women.
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Following 2001 Oprah pick Icy Sparks, Rubio's ambitious, faulty second novel comprises three generations' worth of neo-gothic saga. The cast includes Monroe Miller, a prosperous, self-made turpentine farmer in the pine woods of 1880s southern Georgia; Violet, his pathetic, laudanum-addicted wife; spoiled, impetuous Dalia, his eldest daughter; and younger Nellie Ann, blind from birth. Part I follows Monroe through weekend drinking bouts that help him bear the secret sin that shadows him, and a feud with richer neighbor Lollie Morris. Part II follows Dalia, suddenly bereft and on her own, as she starts a new life in the small town of Samson with her ineffectual son, Marion, to whom she is indifferent, and her robust daughter, Clara Nell, whom she suffocates with adoration and who is the protagonist of part III. Predictably, Clara Nell runs away to marry Dayton Morris, son of Lollie, her grandfather's enemy. Death and disaster dominate the last half of the novel, which has some tense moments and reasonable character depth, but this time out Rubio delivers very good genre writing and no more. And despite the suffering Dalia endures (and lots of "Yessams" from servants), she never changes from the selfish, conniving person she became as the woodsman's favorite daughter.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0143037420
- ISBN 13 9780143037422
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages432
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