A Circuit Rider's Wife
Author | : Corra Harris |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1998 |
ISBN-10 | : 0820320129 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780820320120 |
Rating | : 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.