Deep Summer

by Gwen Bristow

Book Overview

Bristow does "a grand job of storytelling" (the New York Times) in this memorable novel of the late eighteenth-century pioneers who settled the Louisiana wilderness, establishing a civilization of charm, luxury, and tragic injustice

For his service in the king's army during the French and Indian War, Judith Sheramy's father, a Puritan New Englander, is granted a parcel of land in far-off Louisiana. As the family ventures down...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1480485357
• ISBN13: 9781480485358
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Interesting look at early Louisiana

This is a wonderful tale of two families settling into Louisiana while it was still a wilderness, carving out their homes, crops, subsequent plantations and family dynasties, along with their dependence on slaves to maintain those plantations. The author has a nice way of making you feel and see the realities of life in the south, including the bugs and the oppresive heat. It was wonderful learning about the early settlers in Louisiana, up to it's entrance into the US as a territory. Prior to that, sometimes they were governed by the French, sometimes by the Spanish, etc. Well worth taking the time to read, this is the start of Bristow's Plantation Trilogy, the next being during the time of the Civil War. While the price of the used book is more than a bit over the top for me, I readily found it at my local library.

Deep Summer

Although hard to find a copy of this book, it is well worth the hunt. Excellant for all ages and very romantic. You'll turn the pages fast, laugh, gringe, cry...my all time favorite read and based on history of LA as well.

An Amazing Book

This is the first Gwen Bristow novel I've ever read. Her historical fiction is wonderful. This is the first of her plantation trilogy, set in what becomes Louisiana, prior to the American Revolution. It follows the Larne and Sheramy families, telling how they carved their empires out of the forests. It's a great love story, a great historical novel, and my favorite of the trilogy.

History and good love stories

I discovered Gwen Bristow in Junior High. I know I've read all of her books at least 3 times since then. The Plantation Trilogy is her best. This one of the three. Too bad it's out of print. Also Calico Palace. I cannot visit San Fransisco without seeing the early days through Gwen's writing. She was one of the best historical fiction writers.

Best series of Books I have ever read!!!!

Deep Summer is only the first of 3 books to complete the Plantation Trilogy. The book starts out with a family of 4 heading down from New England in the mid 1700's to start a new life in the Deep South. You will follow this family and many other families all the way to the early 1900's. It is amazing to read and imagine how these people felt during all the ups and downs the Plantation life has to offer them, good and bad!! I reccommend this book to everyone who is at all interested in history or just a good ole love story.