Gideon Vetch has risen from poverty and obscurity to the governor’s mansion in Richmond, and the city’s old families cannot decide whether he is a demagogue or a prophet. Stephen Culpeper, a young Virginian of good family back from the war and restless with doubt, is drawn to Vetch’s daughter Patty and to the shrewd, warm Corinna of the old print shop.
A sharp, humane novel of the post-war South by the Pulitzer Prize–winning Virginian novelist. Download the free EPUB.