Secrets and White Lies: Coming of age in depression era Southern Illinois by Presley, Pauline Cagle

Secrets and White Lies: Coming of age in depression era Southern Illinois (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781470057152)

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Secrets and White Lies: Coming of age in depression era Southern Illinois by Presley, Pauline Cagle

Secrets and White Lies: Coming of age in depression era Southern Illinois

$14.98
Secrets and White Lies: Coming of age in depression era Southern Illinois by Presley, Pauline Cagle

Secrets and White Lies: Coming of age in depression era Southern Illinois

$14.98
Format: Paperback
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Secrets and White Lies is a depression era novel set in the small town of Cordonville, nestled in the orchard covered hills of Southern Illinois. Willa Mae "Willie" Langston narrates her coming of age amidst the confusion of family secrets and community scandals. Central to the plot is her friendship with two like-minded souls, Benny Winslow and Coy Middy. Willie's family has owned the local weekly newspaper since before the Civil War, Benny's father is the County Judge and Coy's father is the town drunk. Hoping to protect their motherless children, the fathers hide family secrets with deep regret and sorrow. The pivotal character is Miss Liza Cordon, a teacher whose lifelong, bittersweet relationship with Willie's father is a source for much gossip. The characters come of age as the dawning of World War II changes their lives forever.

Author: Pauline Cagle Presley
ISBN-10: 1470057158
ISBN-13: 9781470057152
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/07/2012
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.48d
By Pauline Cagle Presley
By Pauline Cagle Presley
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Pauline Presley was born in 1925 in the hills of Southern Illinois. Her father was a farm worker who forced her to drop out of high school in her sophomore year. She later received her GED and went on to study creative writing at Southern Illinois University. She began her writing career in the 1950s with her weekly column, A Dash of Gab, in the Cobden Review. She has written many short stories about her formative years in Cobden, Illinois. Her novel, Secrets and White Lies, is a labor of many decades. She began the novel about the same time Harper Lee started writing To Kill a Mocking Bird. At the age of 86, after so many years, her fans are very happy to see her novel finally come to print.

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