{"product_id":"it-was-like-this-9781957868707","title":"It Was Like This","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anne Goodwin Winslow\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cutting Edge Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cutting Edge Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful, romantic drama set in the deep south of the late 1800s, a novel the\u003ci\u003e Lexington Herald\u003c\/i\u003e hailed as \"a tiny masterpiece of style, of subtlety, of studied artistry.\" Back in print for the first time in nearly 75 years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lives of widow Louisa Martin, her two adult sons Hugh and Lawrence, and her adopted daughter Anna on an isolated pecan plantation in Southern Mississippi in the late 1800s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this isolation, Hugh falls in love with Anna, who thinks of him as a brother, so he leaves to become a newspaper reporter... and she marries his younger brother Lawrence, creating more than a little friction in a family already beset by troubles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The quiet enchantment of Winslow's prose has won for her an ever-widening circle of admirers. This book is a brilliant example of her art, a slight but exquisitely polished fragment of fiction that sheds an uncommon lustre. Winslow makes such wise and triumphant use of her materials [and], with her astonishingly subtle craftsmanship, gradually develops a tense love story of incredible beauty.\" \u003ci\u003eSunday News\u003c\/i\u003e (Lancaster, PA)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A deep and stirring drama. The risks her characrters run are more thrilling than the hurdles over which more obvious novelists put their fictional puppets.\" \u003ci\u003eTulsa World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A quietly perfect re-creation of a world that is gone by a writer who loved it well.Passion is subdued and suffering muted in this charming, nostalgic, eminently civilized account of a gifted young man who loves his brother's wife.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Evening Star \u003c\/i\u003e(Washington DC)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Anne Goodwin Winslow's little books are precious bits of literature. For the literary epicure, there is nothing to equal a story by Anne Goodwin Winslow. \"\u003ci\u003e Lexington Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cutting Edge Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45536482197655,"sku":"9781957868707","price":1276.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781957868707.webp?v=1768590740","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/it-was-like-this-9781957868707","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}