years ago the man in the blue moon appeared and exposed murder and hypocrisy in the 'perfect' small town in Florida. "Michael Morris is a wonderful writerwith a unique gift - he can break your heart and mend it, all in the samesentence." Patti Callahan Henry,author of Coming Up For Air/5(). · Michael Morris's latest novel is an intimate look at small-town Southern life of a century ago. This is not a nostalgic story, but a masterfully constructed tale of a family in crisis and a town blinded by local history and the fear of those who are different. Man in . His novella Live Like You Were Dying was a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award Look for Man in the Blue Moon to eclipse them all. (Florida Times Union) Morris (Slow Way Home) has crafted a magical and mesmerizing page-turner rooted in hardscrabble Florida during WWI, based in part on a true family story. Ella Wallace is scrambling to keep her three sons and herself /5().
Age: Gender: female. Quality: 2. Value: 2. Meets Expectations: 1. Man in the Blue Moon takes place in Florida during World War I in a small southern town filled with all the small town busy bodies you can imagine. Unfortunately many of them get names and you have to keep track of who is who, not an easy task. Michael Morris spins an excellent yarn about a Deep South community circa World War I in Man in the Blue Moon. As a young woman, Ella Wallace was a promising art student looking forward to furthering her studies in France—but that was before she became infatuated with the charismatic, free-spending Harlan. Review: Man in the Blue Moon by Michael Morris. On the edge of a cypress swamp in Dead Lakes, Florida, Ella Wallace comes one day closer to losing her land. If only she had listened to her aunt's warnings about gambler, charmer Harlin Wallace. If only she hadn't given up her dream of studying painting.
His novella Live Like You Were Dying was a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award Look for Man in the Blue Moon to eclipse them all. (Florida Times Union) Morris (Slow Way Home) has crafted a magical and mesmerizing page-turner rooted in hardscrabble Florida during WWI, based in part on a true family story. Ella Wallace is scrambling to keep her three sons and herself from the poorhouse after her opium-addicted husband vanishes. Man in the Blue Moon. Michael Morris. Tyndale, $ (p) ISBN Morris (Slow Way Home) has crafted a magical and mesmerizing page-turner rooted in hardscrabble Florida during. “The magic of turn-of-the-century Old Florida, in all its pain and natural beauty, has found its voice with native son, Michael Morris. Told in a multitude of voices, all desperate, all determined, Man in the Blue Moon spins a delicate, unforgettable family drama of abandonment and grit and redemption from unlikely sources. Morris is a fifth-generation Floridian, and describes with a pitch-perfect ear a vanishing rural culture of timber-cuts and bank foreclosures, where hard-held faith was.
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