A thinly veiled autobiographical account of one woman's austere life in the north Georgia mountains, A Circuit Rider's Wife draws on the years Corra Harris accompanied her husband in his work as a Methodist missionary. Set mostly in the fictional Redwine circuit, the novel tells of the challenges, hardships, and--aside from the occasional homemade or homegrown donations--mostly intangible rewards of itinerant country preaching. Through the eyes of Elizabeth Thompson, the circuit rider's wife and narrator, Harris offers a witty but caring assessment of the sometimes fine differences between spiritual and merely religious folks, town and country society, backsliders and straight-and-narrow plodders, Methodists and Baptists, and heaven and hell.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-13
9780820320120
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96281536
Product Key Features
Book Title
A Circuit Rider's Wife
Author
Corra Harris
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
1998
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Corra Harris
Series Title
Brown Thrasher Books
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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