On Leaving Charleston
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Rated 5 starsNot another Better
I have read many books based on the south, including Gone with the Wind (3 times). On leaving Charleston (read twice) is one of the best books that I have read. Another is the prequel to this one called 'Charleson'; if you haven't read ON LEAVING CHARELSTON yet, you should definatey read the first one, well, first. The characters are so real that in some part I feel like they are real people. I would highly recommend this...
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Rated 5 starsCinderella: The Day After
Charleston, beginning of the 20th century. Garden Tradd, grand-niece of Elizabeth Tradd (heroine of Alexandra Ripley's previous book "Charleston") and daughter of an once rich family that had become poor after the Civil War, marries the rich Yankee Schuyler Harris. After the splendid wedding ceremony, they sail away to live happily ever after. But Garden's mother-in-law (I won't post a spoiler here, readers of "Charleston"...
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Rated 4 starsGreat sequeal to Charleston
This book takes place a few years after Charleston, it concerns an "ugly", unwanted girl named Garden Tradd and her life and times. This book incoporates real life history into the novel, Garden watches Chalres Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, see Isadora Duncan die, and weeps over the death of the LIndbergh baby. My only complaint is that Elizabeth Cooper who was a strong voice in the novel charleston is reduced to doing...
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