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| Author | Frank Yerby |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical |
| Publisher | Dial Press |
Publication date | 1950 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 342 |
Floodtide is a 1950 historical novel by the American writer Frank Yerby. [1] It was ranked seventh on the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels that year. [2] Like many of his works of the era it is set in the South during the nineteenth century.
Synopsis
Ross Pary, the son of a saloon from the poor district of Natchez Under-the-Hill, schemes and fights his way up to join the slaveowner plantation elite of Mississippi.
References
Bibliography
- Hill, James Lee. Anti-heroic Perspectives: The Life and Works of Frank Yerby. University of Iowa, 1976.
- Korda, Michael. Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900–1999 : as Seen Through the Annual Bestseller Lists of Publishers Weekly. Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2001.
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| Author | Frank Yerby |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical |
| Publisher | Dial Press |
Publication date | 1950 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 342 |
Floodtide is a 1950 historical novel by the American writer Frank Yerby. [1] It was ranked seventh on the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels that year. [2] Like many of his works of the era it is set in the South during the nineteenth century.
Synopsis
Ross Pary, the son of a saloon from the poor district of Natchez Under-the-Hill, schemes and fights his way up to join the slaveowner plantation elite of Mississippi.
References
Bibliography
- Hill, James Lee. Anti-heroic Perspectives: The Life and Works of Frank Yerby. University of Iowa, 1976.
- Korda, Michael. Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900–1999 : as Seen Through the Annual Bestseller Lists of Publishers Weekly. Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2001.
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