Growing up in a small Kentucky town where she knows every step of the lamplighter, the heroine has music, suitors, family pride and a certain future. One by one these are taken from her, and the novel follows her down into desolation and slowly back toward a self she can bear to live with.
The poetic, inward second novel of the author of The Time of Man, a key book of the Southern literary renaissance. Download the free EPUB.