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The Desert and the Sown
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334 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1902
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February 6, 2019
Another title from my Spinners' Wheel list of books to read, this one by Mary Hallock Foote left me a bit confused. There seemed to be so much more going on than I could really understand.
It starts off as the story of Moya and Paul, who were preparing for their wedding. Moya was an Army brat: her father was a Colonel and she had no mother. Paul was a gentle soul from the East, whose mother had raised him and his sister without the help of their father, who had disappeared when Paul was a baby and Christine was not yet born.
Paul and Moya have somewhat different outlooks on life and he also has a confession he must make to her before the marriage takes place. What was the terrible confession? That his father had been the hired man at his mother's childhood home, and that they had run away together to be married. Would Moya still care for him even though he was the son of a Poor Man?
I thought Paul was a little overwrought about all of that, and so did Moya. But then came a hunting trip, out into the wilds with only a few weeks to go before the wedding. Why did Paul go? Who were the other trekkers with him? And what happened during that trip that would so alter everyone's lives?
I've read Foote before and enjoyed her work, but this one was hard for me to grasp. Would actual people behave the way two certain characters did in the later chapters? I don't know. I could never understand why the fictional characters acted the way they did, not completely. I felt a bit lost for most of the story, simply because I kept wondering about that.
The book is good, but it did not have the wow factor that others Foote titles have had for me.
It starts off as the story of Moya and Paul, who were preparing for their wedding. Moya was an Army brat: her father was a Colonel and she had no mother. Paul was a gentle soul from the East, whose mother had raised him and his sister without the help of their father, who had disappeared when Paul was a baby and Christine was not yet born.
Paul and Moya have somewhat different outlooks on life and he also has a confession he must make to her before the marriage takes place. What was the terrible confession? That his father had been the hired man at his mother's childhood home, and that they had run away together to be married. Would Moya still care for him even though he was the son of a Poor Man?
I thought Paul was a little overwrought about all of that, and so did Moya. But then came a hunting trip, out into the wilds with only a few weeks to go before the wedding. Why did Paul go? Who were the other trekkers with him? And what happened during that trip that would so alter everyone's lives?
I've read Foote before and enjoyed her work, but this one was hard for me to grasp. Would actual people behave the way two certain characters did in the later chapters? I don't know. I could never understand why the fictional characters acted the way they did, not completely. I felt a bit lost for most of the story, simply because I kept wondering about that.
The book is good, but it did not have the wow factor that others Foote titles have had for me.
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