The Keepers Of The House Shirley Ann Grau by Shirley Ann Grau 9781453249048, 1453249044 instant download after payment.

A “beautifully written” novel about prejudice and a distinguished family’s secrets in the American South (The Atlantic Monthly), The Keepers of the House is Shirley Ann Grau’s masterwork, a many-layered indictment of racism and rage that is as terrifying as it is wise.

Entrenched on the same land since the early 1800s, the Howlands have, for seven generations, been pillars of their Southern community. Extraordinary family lore has been passed down to Abigail Howland, but not all of it. When shocking facts come to light about her late grandfather William’s relationship with Margaret Carmichael, a black housekeeper, the community is outraged, and quickly gathers to vent its fury on Abigail. Alone in the house, the Howlands built, she is at once shaken by those who have betrayed her and determined to punish the town that has persecuted her and her kin.  Morally intricate, graceful and suspenseful, The Keepers of the House has become a modern classic.

"Shirley Ann Grau is one of those rare writers who creates a world, draws the reader into it, and makes him somehow happy there no matter what goes on... Such is her beguilement that one comes to the novel’s end with a sense of loss and leaves that world with reluctance.”  —  Newsweek

Shirley Ann Grau (b. 1929) is a writer of nine novels and short story collections, whose work is set primarily in her native South. Grau’s first novel, The Hard Blue Sky (1958), established her as a master of vivid description, both for characters and locale, a style she maintained throughout her career. Her public profile rose during the civil rights movement, when her dynastic novel Keepers of the House (1964), which dealt with race relations in Alabama, earned her a Pulitzer Prize.