The Robber Bridegroom
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ISBN: 0156768070 / Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, November 1978
This surrealistic tale about a Mississippi planter's family and their encounters with assorted bandits and Indians recaptures the innocence, energy, and easy carelessness of our lost frontier
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Legendary figures of Mississippi’s past-flatboatman Mike Fink and the dreaded Harp brothers-mingle with characters from Eudora Welty’s own imagination in an exuberant fantasy set along the Natchez Trace. Berry-stained bandit of the woods Jamie Lockhart steals Rosamond, the beautiful daughter of pioneer planter Clement Musgrove, to set in motion this frontier fairy tale. “For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautiful” (New Yorker).
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