Blood of My Blood | 
| Creator: Anne Blythe Meriwether
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 783088
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 7.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0813024439
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
UPC: 667272244398
EAN: 9780813024431
ASIN: 0813024439
Publication Date: March 6, 2002
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Book Description
Written in 1928, the year Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moved to Cross Creek, her autobiographical first novel, Blood of My Blood, was never published. Its existence was unknown to her contemporaries--including Max Perkins, her editor at Scribner's. Blood of My Blood is a portrait of the young artist very nearly ruined by egotism and through being alternately pushed and spoiled by her mother Ida. It is also a tender tribute to her father Arthur and a moving account of their relationship. But always at the center of the story is the intense love and hate that flamed back and forth between mother and daughter. Blood of My Blood reveals not only the painful process of maturation for a creative but tormented mind but also the steady growth of an artist. There are wonderful descriptions of the natural world, people, objects, and--uniquely for Rawlings--of the big city and city-dwellers. Born in Washington, D.C., and reared there until her graduation from high school in 1914, Rawlings' descriptions of the city are historically charming, and her depiction of the society where "class distinctions were shaved wafer thin" is remarkable for its pertinence nearly a century later.
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 Fills in the background for Rawlings' classics September 10, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This reminds me of old novels by Grace Livingston Hill or Gene Stratton Porter with the struggle against adverse conditions and conflicts over family values. At times it is heavy going. If this is close to what Rawlings' actual childhood and college years were like, I'm glad I read it before now turning to her classic, Cross Creek. I should get more from that reading with this book as background.
Useful mostly to scholars, students and devoted readers of The Yearling and Cross Creek.
I wish it had included photos of Rawlings as a child and in college and of her family. That would have been a plus.
 Inspiration for "The Sojourner" January 28, 2003
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I agree with "Wibblet's" comments. Those who have read Rawlings's last novel, "The Sojourner" will find the present volume even more fascinating, as it provides the real life roots for significant themes and characters in the later work. For us Rawlings fans, "Blood of My Blood" also provides more reasons for admiration and affection for this great American writer.
Wonderful glimpse at a great writer's early work May 9, 2002
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I bought this book after reading Rawlings' autobiographical _Cross Creek_. I would recommend the book to any fan of Rawlings, as it provides an intense look at her complicated relationship with her mother, an understanding of the spiritual kinship she shared with her father, and provokes examination of the lines we draw between fiction and autobiography. In this very early, nearly unedited work, the readers sees how the two often become indistinguishable.
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