SOUTH MOON UNDER

by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 1933

It is a really significant and deeply moving story of poor whites in the Florida ""scrub"". Almost one feels a kinship with the Chinese peasants of THE GOOD EARTH in a fundamental quality in those people, primitive in their mode of life, in their emotional reactions, in their slow thought. Far removed indeed from the perverts who seem to abound in most of the ""modern writing"" that has come out of the deep South. Here is realism without sordidness, poetry and rhythm and a tenderness that never once verges on sentimentality. A book for which we prophesy a permanent place in American expression. Sell first as a good tale, beautifully told, with roots deep in the American soil, but without any consciousness of making an offering to the god of Americans. Then sell to the discriminating reader who seeks sheer beauty of expression. The choice of this book as the March Book-of-the-Month promises a good send-off.

Pub Date: March 1, 1933

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Scribner

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1933

Categories: NONFICTION