{"product_id":"the-believers-janice-holt-giles-9780813101897","title":"The Believers","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her historical novels about Kentucky, Janice Holt Giles has become known for the integrity with which she handles her material and for the realism with which she writes. In \u003ci\u003eThe Believers\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1957, she continues her series about the settling of Kentucky with a moving story of love and marriage set in a Shaker community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca Fowler is only seventeen when she marries Richard Cooper. She cannot remember a time when she has not loved and trusted him and followed where he led. At first the marriage is happy; it is only after their child is stillborn that Richard shows preliminary signs of religious fanaticism in his insistence that this is God's punishment visited upon them. The Shaker missionaries newly arrived in Kentucky find him an easy convert. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Richard joins the Shaker community, Rebecca goes with him, as a dutiful wife should, hoping that her love will ultimately win him back to her and to the larger world. She becomes part of a strange world in which men and women--even husbands and wives--live apart, coming together only for meals and for worship. As time passes and she sees Richard's affection recede, only her stubborn honesty gives her the strength to deny lip service to a doctrine she cannot truly accept and, at the last, courage to follow the dictates of her heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this novel, Mrs. Giles gives us a unique picture of everyday life in a Shaker village, one of the experiments in utopian communal living that are a part of American history. Realistically but with understanding, she shows us a society animated not only by saintliness but by bigotry and ordinary human frailties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanice Holt Giles\u003c\/b\u003e (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in \u003ci\u003eJanice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janice Holt Giles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813101891\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813101897\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.45h x 5.56w x 0.51d","brand":"Janice Holt Giles","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926383984895,"sku":"9780813101897","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_621da9d1-1701-4b74-a333-a8f6c066e78a.jpg?v=1681082779","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-believers-janice-holt-giles-9780813101897","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}