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The Truest Pleasure

Ginny and Tom have a practical marriage. Tom wants land to call his own, and Ginny knows she can't manage her aging father's farm by herself. They enjoy a mutual attraction that sometimes grows into a deeply gratifying love, but their obsessions always, inevitably, end up in the way.

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  • "Ginny and Tom have a practical marriage. Tom wants land to call his own, and Ginny knows she can't manage her aging father's farm by herself. They enjoy a mutual attraction that sometimes grows into a deeply gratifying love, but their obsessions always, inevitably, end up in the way."@en
  • "Ginny, who marries Tom at the turn of the century after her family has given up on her ever marrying, narrates THE TRUEST PLEASURE--the story of their life together on her father's farm in the western North Carolina mountains. They have a lot in common--love of the land and fathers who fought in the Civil War. Tom's father died in the war, but Ginny's father came back to western North Carolina to hold on to the farm and turn a profit. Ginny's was a childhood of relative security, Tom's one of landlessness. Truth be known--and they both know it--their marriage is mutually beneficial in purely practical terms. Tom wants land to call his own. Ginny knows she can't manage her aging father's farm by herself. But there is also mutual attraction, and indeed their loving is deeply gratifying. What keeps getting in the way of it, though, are their obsessions. Tom Powell's obsession is easy to understand. He's a workaholic who hoards time and money. Ginny is obsessed by Pentecostal preaching. That she loses control of her dignity, that she speaks in tongues, that she is saved, seem to her a blessing and to Tom a disgrace. It's not until Tom lies unconscious and at the mercy of a disease for which the mountain doctor has no cure that Ginny realizes her truest pleasure is her love for her husband. Like COLD MOUNTAIN, the time and place of THE TRUEST PLEASURE are remote from contemporary American life, but its rendering of the nature of marriage is timeless and universal. Praise for THE TRUEST PLEASURE: Marvelously vivid imagery. ... a quietly audacious book.--The New York Times Book Review; Morgan deeply understands these people and their world, and he writes about them with an authority usually associated with the great novelists of the last century. ... the book is astonishing.--The Boston Book Review."@en
  • "A marriage threatened by religious fervor is saved by an illness. The narrator is Ginny Peace, a farmer's wife with children, whose exhibitions of ecstasy at Pentecostal revival meetings revolt her husband, driving him away. Not until he falls seriously ill, does she gain the strength to escape her drug, realizing the marriage is her truest pleasure."@en
  • "A marriage threatened by religious fervor is saved by an illness. The narrator is Ginny Peace, a farmer's wife with children, whose exhibitions of ecstasy at Pentecostal revival meetings revolt her husband, driving him away. Not until he falls seriously ill, does she gain the strength to escape her drug, realizing the marriage is her truest pleasure."
  • "Het gelukkige huwelijk van een Amerikaanse boerin wordt aan het begin van de 20e eeuw overschaduwd doordat haar man haar enthousiaste deelname aan de Pinkstergemeente niet kan accepteren."
  • "Tom wants land to call his own, and Ginny knows she can't manage her aging father's farm by herself--theirs is a practical marriage. It isn't until Tom becomes desperately ill that the couple discovers their truest pleasure."
  • "Ginny, who marries Tom at the turn of the century after her family has given up on her ever marrying, narrates THE TRUEST PLEASURE--the story of their life together on her father's farm in the western North Carolina mountains. They have a lot in common--love of the land and fathers who fought in the Civil War. Tom's father died in the war, but Ginny's father came back to western North Carolina to hold on to the farm and turn a profit. Ginny's was a childhood of relative security, Tom's one of landlessness. Truth be known--and they both know it--their marriage is mutually beneficial in purely practical terms. Tom wants land to call his own. Ginny knows she can't manage her aging father's farm by herself. But there is also mutual attraction, and indeed their "loving" is deeply gratifying. What keeps getting in the way of it, though, are their obsessions. Tom Powell's obsession is easy to understand. He's a workaholic who hoards time and money. Ginny is obsessed by Pentecostal preaching. That she loses control of her dignity, that she speaks "in tongues," that she is "saved," seem to her a blessing and to Tom a disgrace. It's not until Tom lies unconscious and at the mercy of a disease for which the mountain doctor has no cure that Ginny realizes her truest pleasure is her love for her husband. Like COLD MOUNTAIN, the time and place of THE TRUEST PLEASURE are remote from contemporary American life, but its rendering of the nature of marriage is timeless and universal. Praise for THE TRUEST PLEASURE: "Marvelously vivid imagery. . . . a quietly audacious book."--The New York Times Book Review; "Morgan deeply understands these people and their world, and he writes about them with an authority usually associated with the great novelists of the last century. . . . the book is astonishing."--The Boston Book Review;"@en
  • "Relates the story of the passionate but unsteady marriage between a woman who inherits a farm in the mountains of North Carolina and a land-hungry man who views her Pentecostal faith with disgust."@en

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
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