Through a Glass, Darkly

A Novel

Title Details

Pages: 340

Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in

Formats

Hardcover

Pub Date: 10/01/2001

ISBN: 9-781-5883-8054-8

List Price: $27.95

eBook

Pub Date: 10/01/2001

ISBN: 9-781-6030-6265-7

List Price: $9.99

Imprint

NewSouth Books

Related Subjects

FICTION / General

Through a Glass, Darkly

A Novel

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  • Reviews
Charlotte Miller’s debut novel, Behold, This Dreamer, was a regional success story in 2000–2001. She continues now with the second installment of her trilogy exploring romance, culture, and place in the Depression-era Deep South. In the new book, Janson Sanders and his new bride, Elise, have been exiled by her wealthy father and have returned, penniless and landless, to his poor-but-proud relatives in Alabama. There, they struggle to build a life for themselves and to recover the family farm stolen from Janson by an unscrupulous local landowner.
Invokes the deep rural South, and a time, a place, and a people so accurately that one can almost hear the beat of a heart, the touch of a hand on a cheek. As a major chronicler of our near past, with both its darkness and light, Miller has penned a novel in which the lives of the characters soon become almost as real as our own.

—Rosemary Daniell, author of Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex and Suicide in the Deep South

Has what most current novels sadly lack: a strong narrative line. The novel should please readers, as well as reliably inform them about the deplorable economic conditions that, during the 1920s and ’30s, prevailed in Alabama and other parts of the South.

—Madison Jones, author of Last Things

Miller knows her people, the poor white farmers of hill-country Alabama. James Agee showed us their faces in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. This writer reveals their hearts and their dreams. It is a page turner, an unforgettable read.

—Helen Blackshear, former Alabama Poet Laureate, author of The Creek Captives

About the Author/Editor

CHARLOTTE MILLER was born in Roanoke, Alabama in 1959 and has never lived outside the South. She began writing her Sanders family trilogy while a student at Auburn University, where she received a degree in business administration. Today, she works as a certified public accountant to pay the bills, and writes late into the night because she must. Behold, This Dreamer (2000), Through a Glass, Darkly (2001), and There Is a River (2002) complete her multi-generational saga of the agricultural and cotton mill South. One of her short stories, “An Alabama Christmas,” was included in the bestselling 1999 regional collection, Ordinary & Sacred As Blood: Alabama Women Speak. She is a member of the Georgia Writers and the National League of American Pen Women. She lives in Opelika, Alabama and has one son, Justin.