978-1-58838-061-6
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$18.95 paperback
6" x 9"
510 pages
978-1-58838-002-9
1-58838-061-0
$27.95 hardcover
6" x 9"
510 pages
NewSouth Books |
What a
story! Fantastic! It is reminiscent of Gone With the Wind.....The
author is enormously talented! ...This is one author who will be at the
top of readers’ list for a long time.
--Maris Cato, Southern Scribe
In Behold, This Dreamer a flapper daughter of the 1920's in
rural Georgia defies her tyrannical father and brothers by falling in
love with a true-hearted farm hand from Alabama. You'll stay up
late turning the pages of this suspenseful and inspiring tale.
Charlotte Miller has created a world rich in period-piece details--the
labor of hand-picking cotton from the red fields, the latest bobbed hair
styles for women, the interior of a 1915 black roadster Cadillac.
Bone-chilling scenes of cruelty between girl friends, between fathers
and daughters, between abusive husbands and their wives, between land
owners and sharecroppers serve as the background for characters who
allow their hearts to shine out from the darkness.
--Serena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife
Charlotte Miller has illuminated a dark corner of the American South
with remarkable grace and beauty. Behold, This Dreamer is an
incredible debut novel.
--Melinda Haynes, author of Mother of Pearl
Behold, This Dreamer is a wonderful read. Charlotte Miller is a born
story-teller whose characters come alive.
--Anne George, author of the "Southern Sisters" mysteries
Good News! Southern literature is not dying. It is being revived by a
writer named Charlotte Miller and a press called NewSouth Books. Behold,
This Dreamer reminds us of what we can’t lose: the language of our
people, the details of our land, the spiritual lust we crave -- all of
which Miller brings together in this masterful first novel.
--Vicki Covington, author of Bird of Paradise and The Last
Hotel for Women
Solidly grounded in the Southern rural scene, this is a compelling
tale which addresses questions of identity and the struggle of good with
evil. A story vividly told and, from first to last, rewarding to read.
--Helen Norris, former Alabama poet laureate, author of The Christmas
Wife
Behold, This Dreamer is a faithful representation of the twenties as
seen from a vantage point of a class too often ignored in contemporary
fiction. In Janson Sanders, with his fierce independence, his sense of
self, and his love of the land, the author has created a hero worthy to
represent the embattled farmers who have done so much to build this
nation.
--Rosemary Canfield Reisman, First Draft
Janson Sanders, part Indian, part poor-but-proud white, is a man intent
on avenging his father’s death and taking back the land stolen from
him by a wealthy planter. In the process, Janson meets and falls in love
with a girl whose father, another rich landowner, operates an illegal
bootlegging industry.
This desperate, dangerous world of
which Janson becomes a part places him in a position where he must fend
off both rival gangsters and honest policemen.
A story of love, hope, poverty, and
heartbreak, the protagonist struggles to find himself while being pulled
in opposite directions toward his love and his dream.
also by Charlotte Miller:
There is A River
Through
A Glass, Darkly
about the author:
Charlotte Miller began writing Behold, This Dreamer while a
student at Auburn University, where she received a degree in business
administration. She is the author of a trilogy of novels; Behold,
This Dreamer, Through A Glass, Darkly, and There is a River.
She lives in Opelika, Alabama.
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