{"product_id":"it-was-like-this-anne-goodwin-winslow-9781957868707","title":"It Was Like This","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful, romantic drama set in the deep south of the late 1800s, a novel the\u003ci\u003e Lexington Herald\u003c\/i\u003e hailed as \"a tiny masterpiece of style, of subtlety, of studied artistry.\" Back in print for the first time in nearly 75 years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lives of widow Louisa Martin, her two adult sons Hugh and Lawrence, and her adopted daughter Anna on an isolated pecan plantation in Southern Mississippi in the late 1800s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this isolation, Hugh falls in love with Anna, who thinks of him as a brother, so he leaves to become a newspaper reporter... and she marries his younger brother Lawrence, creating more than a little friction in a family already beset by troubles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The quiet enchantment of Winslow's prose has won for her an ever-widening circle of admirers. This book is a brilliant example of her art, a slight but exquisitely polished fragment of fiction that sheds an uncommon lustre. Winslow makes such wise and triumphant use of her materials [and], with her astonishingly subtle craftsmanship, gradually develops a tense love story of incredible beauty.\" \u003ci\u003eSunday News\u003c\/i\u003e (Lancaster, PA)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A deep and stirring drama. The risks her characrters run are more thrilling than the hurdles over which more obvious novelists put their fictional puppets.\" \u003ci\u003eTulsa World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A quietly perfect re-creation of a world that is gone by a writer who loved it well.Passion is subdued and suffering muted in this charming, nostalgic, eminently civilized account of a gifted young man who loves his brother's wife.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Evening Star \u003c\/i\u003e(Washington DC)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Anne Goodwin Winslow's little books are precious bits of literature. For the literary epicure, there is nothing to equal a story by Anne Goodwin Winslow. \"\u003ci\u003e Lexington Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Goodwin Winslow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1957868708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781957868707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cutting Edge Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d","brand":"Anne Goodwin Winslow","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800709771519,"sku":"9781957868707","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/it-was-like-this-anne-goodwin-winslow-9781957868707","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}