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The make-believers
ISBN: 9780911116816
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内容简介
Congressman lke Woodruff has other things
to do than concern himself with the desperate
plight of field-hand Jim Bondy, but he can
find no satisfying escape. His spirited and de-
cisive actions set in motion events that reach
into distant parts of the country and into the
lives, loves and hopes of many people: Bondy
and his children, Congressman lke and his
near and distant kin, Painter Leonard, Dr.
George Izlar and his "imported-from Boston"
Margaret, Businessman Owen, who wonders
if it is too late to become the man he once
wanted to be, and making-believe it is not.
"What do you believe, Owen?" asks Izlar.
"That s what matters. I don t care what you
know." In essence, Izlar was asking: What do
you make-beieve?
That question might well be asked of every
character in this sweeping novel of challenge and passion and interlocking lives, of personal
problems merging with problems of communi-
ty and society, of characters with a human
dimension seldom found in contemporary
fiction-a brilliantly conceived and flawlessly
executed new chapter in the saga of Berry
Fleming s Fredericksville, Georgia.
A critic has said that despite having pub-
lished ten novels, Berry Fleming "never writes
the same book twice." He has written of New
York in To the Market Place; of Americans
abroad in Visa to France; of a country of the
mind in Carnival; of widely varied aspects of
the South in Siesta, Colonel Effingham s Raid,
The Fortune Tellers, The Winter Rider and
Lucinderella. No two are alike.
His novels of the South portray neither
heroes nor monsters. They do, however, de-
pict those characters who give the South its
character. Fleming is never obscure, but he is
never obvious. He writes with imagination,
warmth and a quiet, subtle humor of people
the reader can recognize. His novels are
colored by the perceptions of a mature intelli-
gence and by a style that combines a fastidious
respect for language with a perfect ear for
the Southern vernacular.
Although Colonel Effingham s Raid and The
Fortune Tellers were best sellers and major
book club selections, Fleming s place among
leading American novelists has been more in-
tense than widespread. Thc reader who dis-
covers Berry Fleming for the first time in The
Make-Believers will want to turn to the au-
thor s other books and continue his acquaint-
ance with thc work of this distinguished
novelist.
