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Original Title:	Raintree County
ISBN:	014023666X (ISBN13: 9780140236668)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Indiana(United States)

Raintree County

Ross Lockridge Jr.

Paperback | Pages: 1088 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 911 Users | 76 Reviews

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Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life—from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics of the Gilded Age, to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father. Shawnessy is the epitome of the place and period in which he lives, a rural land of springlike women, shady gamblers, wandering vagabonds, and soapbox orators. Yet here on the banks of the Shawmucky River, which weaves its primitive course through Raintree County, Indiana, he also feels and obeys ancient rhythms. A number-one bestseller when it was first published in 1948, this powerful novel is a compelling vision of 19th-century America with timeless resonance.

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Title	:	Raintree County
Author	:	Ross Lockridge Jr.
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1088 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1994 by Penguin Books (first published January 1st 1948)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Classics. Novels

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Ratings: 3.95 From 911 Users | 76 Reviews

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As of now, the greatest book I've ever read.

What a great book. It covers one day in a life, and the memories of a lifetime... Many may say that this is the Great American Novel. I agree. As I read it, the novel calls up images of America similar to Whitman. I highly recommend it.

"Raintree County" is an American version of Tolstoy's "War and Peace". I've actually read "War and Peace". Lockridge's "Raintree County" rises to that level--and, in my estimation--surpasses it. I love the Russians--Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev. And I love Walt Whitman and Ross Lockridge for the same reason. They all have what the Spanish call "duende," what the American blacks clamor to express by the word "soul". These aren't weak, spineless, effete Victorians afraid of beauty, passion, shame

Yes, it's long, yes, it could have been edited a bit more, but it was so engrossing, so interestingly structured and surprisingly entertaining. It took me such a long time to read it; now I'M from Raintree County! I really admire Mr. Lockridge's way with words. Next, his son's memoir about his father's tragic suicide at age 33.

A strange book. The Civil War part was excellent. The rest was tedious for the most part. The writing is familiar in a mid-20th century way, but I've seen this done better. Surprising how much sex is in this thing, too. Even that turns out to be tedious in Lockridge's hands. A shame he killed himself.

See my review on my book blog: http://quirkyreader.livejournal.com/4...

This is an ambitious work, probably a conscious attempt at achieving the elusive Great American Novel. My copy is old, with small print that doesn't contrast well on somewhat yellowed pages -- and so my first reaction on picking it up was to question whether reading it would be worth the trouble. A few paragraphs in, the intelligent, sculpted prose settled that.Still, I agree with reviewers who say the book is too long. My edition is 985 pages and by the time I got into the last few hundred I