Together, they are a time machine, transporting us to a different place and era, Southern Louisiana at the very end of the 19th century. Beginning with a dark and painterly photo of wind-blown pines on the barrier island of Grand Isle, where much of the novella is set, it moved on to views of the Bayou country, a New Orleans street, women in drawing rooms taking tea or listening to music, dark interiors, a sun-bleached veranda, and a glorious sea-bathing scene like a French Impressionist painting. The tone was set from the start by the gallery of period photographs offered as a preface. Beautifully printed, on generously-sized pages of thick paper, it was a joy to read and to hold. ![]() I read this feminist classic (for the first time, amazingly) in a splendid Simon & Schuster hardbound edition from 1996, which is not listed here I mention it only because it so strongly shaped my expectations.
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