Ebook {Epub PDF} Love and Lament by John Milliken Thompson

on Love and Lament Love and Lament is a monument to memory in its most powerful comingling of past and present Thompson seems to be a natural heir . John Milliken Thompson’s Love and Lament is a sweeping novel that gets everything right—the details, the panorama—but mainly it allows you to experience the life of another time, about a hundred years ago, in the soul and mind of a young woman whose passions and worries could be your own. In other words, Thompson makes that art form.  · Love and Lament is a coming of age story about a young girl named Mary Bet who faces an unfathomable series of events that leaves her with a father that loses his mind (goes bananas, literally.) She is extremely relatable and she's a character whom you really grow to care for over the course of the read/5(40).

LOVE AND LAMENT. by John Milliken Thompson. BUY NOW FROM. AMAZON BARNES NOBLE LOCAL BOOKSELLER GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Email Address Subscribe. Tweet. KIRKUS REVIEW. By John Milliken Thompson. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Love and Lament chronicles the hardships and misfortunes of the Hartsoe family. Mary Bet, the youngest of nine children, was born the same year that the first. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Love and Lament by John Milliken Thompson (, Compact Disc, Unabridged edition) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

by John Milliken Thompson | July 16th, Love and Lament is a family saga, a young woman’s coming-of-age story set in piedmont North Carolina around the turn of the century. It’s the result of my trying to tell one story and ending up with another. on Love and Lament Love and Lament is a monument to memory in its most powerful comingling of past and present Thompson seems to be a natural heir to that great Southern writer, [Eudora Welty]. If memory, as Eudora Welty wrote, “is a living thing [and] all that is remembered joins, and lives—the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead”, then John Milliken Thompson’s novel Love and Lament is a monument to memory in its most powerful comingling of past and present. This is an ambitious and engrossing book, difficult to put down and, at times, almost too painful to contemplate.