As Summer Dies [Paperback]

Winston Groom (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1982

Willie Croft, a small-town Louisiana lawyer, finds his career and personal ambitions soaring to new heights when oil is discovered on local land that is held by African-American sharecroppers. Reprint. NYT.

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From Publishers Weekly

From the author of Forrest Gump comes the story of a Louisiana lawyer hired by the black community to defend a local woman's discovery of oil on her land.
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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Berkley (November 1, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425056325
• ISBN-13: 978-0425056325
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,157,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Winston Groom is often tagged by critics as an average, February 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: As Summers Die: As Summers Die (Mass Market Paperback)

who's book Forrest Gump became a memorable flick. Winston Groom is not an average writer; he is an extrodinary one. "Forrest Gump," the original novel, may have differed from th movie but "As Summers Die" is a tantalizing novel. The prose and characters are solid and the descriptions of the South in the 50's are remarkable. Read this book

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great southern novel, June 26, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: As Summers Die: As Summers Die (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a great book that really translates the feelings of the south during the time of desegration and seperation of society. Winston Groom has a wonderful writing style. I loved the book!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Set in Louisiana, January 10, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: As Summers Die (Hardcover)

Great book, but I have to take issue with the publisher's synopsis. The book is set in Mobile, Alabama, where Winston Groom was raised. Although the names are changed (i.e., he calls the town Bienville, which happens to be the name of Mobile's founder), the [unflattering] parallels between the fictional town and the real Mobile are unmistakeable to anyone from Mobile who reads this book. Even the Holt family is based on a real family from Mobile. Groom changes the names, but it's no secret who he's after.

The publisher probably thought As Summers Die is set in Louisiana because early in the book the author mentions the town being part of French Louisiana, which Mobile was the capitol of before New Orleans.