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Overview
A great buy for this Yerby classic. fine
Description
Born in a shack on Natchez-Under-the-Hill, the abode of cutthroats, thieves,
brawling river men and ladies of easy virtue, Ross Pary had but one goal: to
reach Natchez-on-the Hill, where gentlemen planters lived a life of graciousness
and ease in porticoed mansions. In physical distance, there was less than a mile
between the two worlds, but in social distance, the residents of Natchez-on-the-
Hill flourished a half-world away. Yet, there is more to Floodtide than Ross
Pary's struggle for social acceptance through the passions and conflicts of his
tangled loves. It is the story of a chivalrous South overreaching itself for an
overseas slave empire and reaching the floodtide of its fortunes in the lush
decade of the 1850s.
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