Yesterday I finished reading the Kendal version of the book
SORROW WOOD by Raymond L. Atkins. It
covers a time spell from the 1940s through three war to present time. It starts off in north east Alabama near Sand
Mountain, skids the Pacific during WWII, shipyards in Oregon and back to northeast
Alabama. It has a vague murder mystery
in the background that doesn’t overshadow the on going sagas of the town’s head
lawman.
As witty as it is, you cannot
read it without shedding tears too.
Raymond Atkins is very witty. He has an outlook on people not too differently
than Kurt Vonnegut. He and his wife live
on the banks of the Etowah River in Rome, Georgia, which most of his books are
about that area.
SORROW WOOD is a very good book worth one’s time.
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