Low Country

by Anne Rivers Siddons

Book Overview

Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a rich husband -- and a predictable routine of country-club luncheons and cocktail parties. Caroline is the chatelaine... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061093327
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: HarperTorch
• Length: 461 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.2" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

A great book!

I was very surprised to see all the negative reviews for "Low Country". I personally thought it was one of Anne Rivers Siddons' best books ever. I agree with the readers that say that her genre is somewhat predictable, but that is what makes her books almost comforting. I, for one, like happy endings. I loved "Colony" and "Fault Lines" and put this one on the same level. She chooses her surroundings carefully, but her characters always seem to be a part of their area. Any woman who has been through a crisis that shakes her marraige to the bone and makes her grow as woman and a partner can relate to her books.

My Bridges of Hope by Livia Bitton-Jackson

This book is a wonderful sequel to Livia Bitton-Jackson's first novel, "I Have Lived a Thousand Years". This book follows the trials and tribulations of a young Jewish girl after her life-scarring experience in Auschwitz. A young Jewish girl, Elli, and her family search for love and identity after being in a concentration camp. Her family now houses a life-long dream of living in America. While trying to pursue this fantasy, Elli finds herself in the midst of many Jewish pogromist attacks and tries to struggle her way through these ordeals. Her family helps her overcome these ordeals as they still pursue their dream of living in America.

Siddons has captured the Lowcountry

You would think Siddons was a Lowcountry native or lived in one of the many developed islands in coastal SC. Caro reminds me a lot of local women, who grew up with an appreciation of the Gullah culture and a fear of development. I still am haunted by the development of Dafuskie Island.Siddons captures the two cultures living side by side extremely well.

Siddons brought the low country home with her descriptions.

I didn't think I would find a Siddons book that equaled Up Island, but Lowcountry certainly did. Having lived in the "low country," I can appreciate Caro's concern over the spoiling of the marshes and the exploitation of the Gullah people. I thought the plot moved rapidly; nothing was obvious...I found myself gasping several times at the turn of events. Even three quarters through, I would not have been able to guess the ending. It would be hard for me to choose the better of the two....in terms of character development, plot, and local color.

Why can't more American authors write like this?

How fitting that nearly all of Siddons' books have place times for titles! She is a master at painting verbal photographs of places - without cliches or trite turns of phrase. This story, as with most other Siddons' works, delicately balances plot with dialogue, characterizations and vivid descriptions. Siddons knows when to hold back, too, never going over the top. Here she has put together the story of a woman and her relationships with nature, her past, her family and the new forces that enter her life. I think Caro may be my favorite Siddons' character yet. Thank you, ARS, for yet another fine story. Your book arrived in my local bookstore just when I needed to escape from my own world into another.