Tom wants land to call his own, and Ginny knows she can't manage her ageing father's farm by herself. They enjoy a mutual attraction, but their obsessions always end up in the way. It's not until Tom lies at the mercy of a disease, that Ginny realises her truest pleasure.
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Tom wants land to call his own, and Ginny knows she can't manage her ageing father's farm by herself. They enjoy a mutual attraction, but their obsessions always end up in the way. It's not until Tom lies at the mercy of a disease, that Ginny realises her truest pleasure.
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New. When Robert Morgan writes a story he also makes a poem. His books convey (we quote The American Heritage Dictionary's definition of poem) ''a vivid and imaginative sense of experience characterized by the use of condensed language chosen for its sound and suggestive power as well as its meaning. '' Born and raised in the mountains of North Carolina, Morgan takes for his palette the earth and sky colors of the Appalachian high country. His characters are fire--oranges and reds that blaze and feed on whatever life brings--love, grief, anger, passion, joy. In the Welsh tradition of his ancestors, Morgan's voice carries a song, lean though never lacking. We illustrate (quoting Ginny in The Truest Pleasure): ''I took a long deep drink from the whiskey jug and set in the silence as though it was a cool bath on a hot day. Silence is the language of God, I thought. He prefers to speak to us that way, and through our own voices. I wanted to wait a while longer and study about things. I might not be able to think this clear again for a long time. I wanted to figure it out a little more, to see if there was some way I could understand what had happened to me. What did it come to? '' To answer Ginny's question, we quote Morgan again (from Gap Creek): '''Can you walk? ' Hank said. 'Of course I can walk, ' I said. I felt as weak as a newborn colt but my strength was coming back as my stomach settledaWe started walking again. '' A Publishers Weekly Best Book, The Truest Pleasure tells the marriage story of Ginny and Tom Powell shortly after the Civil War when Tom comes to farm with Ginny on her aging father's land. The practicality of their love gives way to both contention and intimacy as they bear children, the hardships of land and family, and the profound differences between them.
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I did not like this book as much as Gap Creek in general. Morgan does have the gift of creating this period in enrapturing stories and uniquely narrated from a female first person perspective. The ending is worth reading this book as it alone is probably the most poignant capture of the trials of life and the reader will be left with soul searching thoughts long afterward.
