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From the cover: "In Jordan County, Mississippi, a murder trial is drawing to a close.....The trial is a formality, because Luther Eustis has already confessed. As Shelby Foote re-creates the murder of Beulah Ross - and the annihilating passion that drew her to her murderer - he generates a suspense full of tension and foreboding. Drawing on themes as old as the Bible and investing them with the chilling dignity of a mountain folk song, Follow Me Down immerses us in lives obsessed with sin and redemption, desire and vengeful retribution."
If you like the southern gothic genre and a story related from multiple points of view, read this. Shelby Foote compares quite favorably with William Faulkner. This is the first of his novels that I have read, but it will not be the last. He is a renowned Civil War historian, and so much more.
If you like the southern gothic genre and a story related from multiple points of view, read this. Shelby Foote compares quite favorably with William Faulkner. This is the first of his novels that I have read, but it will not be the last. He is a renowned Civil War historian, and so much more.
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