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Dark of the Moon [Hardcover]

Janice Daugharty (Author), Jane Howle (Editor)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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March 1994
A Georgia flatwoods moonshiner captures a revenue agent and puts him in the custody of his much younger wife

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In a strong, sometimes poetic voice, Daugharty's first novel deals with the harsh, joyless life of a contemporary Georgia flatwoods midwife. Married to the brutal, much older moonshiner Hamp, Merdie Lee sneaks off weekly to sing country music with her teenage sons Bo Dink, Israel and Little Noah. Hamp's kidnapping of a revenue agent named Mac brings danger and change into her life; as she guards and tends Mac, Merdie's views are altered, and she and he become lovers. Though Hamp may kill him, Mac cannot leave Merdie with her ignorant, cruel husband. When a venal sheriff tries to blackmail Hamp because his two sons from a previous marriage are selling drugs, he sinks into a deranged, dangerous state. Then Mac tells Hamp he isn't a revenuer in search of illicit stills, but an FBI agent after the sheriff. In spite of a few loose ends, the tale comes to a fine conclusion as Merdie resolves a conflict. Filled with tension and drama, memorable for its colorful local characters and two likable protagonists, this is a promising debut. A collection of Daugharty's short stories will appear in the fall from Ontario Review Press.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Merdie, an aspiring country-and-western singer, has never really thought about the hardships of her life as the wife of a crazed moonshiner, but begins to question her existence in southern Georgia when the family kidnaps a revenuer, Mac. At the same time, her dreams of going to Nashville take an upturn when a new manager spots her and her boys singing in a seedy bar, but Hamp, her husband doesn't know of her would-be career. There is much that Hamp discovers as Merdie and Mac become involved. Merdie must also decide if she wants to take over her mother's midwifing business. Nothing is as it first appears in this odd but engaging love story. The dialect can be difficult, but the unusual characters make the extra reading effort worthwhile. Recommended for public libraries.
- Heather Blenkinsopp, Mercy Coll. Lib., Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 275 pages
  • Publisher: Baskerville Publishers; 1St Edition edition (March 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1880909170
  • ISBN-13: 978-1880909171
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,105,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

See www.janicedaugharty.com for sample writings and more on me.

One morning, I expect to wake up to breakfast in bed--served by Amazon/Kindle. They do everything else for authors with more and more happening all the time.

I've been writing for about thirty years but publishing only about twenty years. Slow starter, that's me! Now, in my later years, I find myself having to ostensibly start over: I'm trying to find my way in a virtual publishing world, after so many years of print publishing only. If I thought my little place was isolated before, it's even more isolated now that I'm tied to my computer. I like it though, very much. I especailly like the freedom of quick, uncomplicated publishing through Kindle on Amazon. Compare having to mail copies of manuscripts to an agent, waiting, waiting, waiting for her to get back to me, then waiting again for some editor to accept or reject one of my novels, so on and so forth. You get the picture. Lately I've been clicking on to the digital platform and uploading precious manuscripts--most written during those other long waits--that I thought I'd never see in print.

Thankfully, I now have a print publisher too--Belle Bridge Books--who has done an amazing job with my last two novels. Both best-sellers in the Kindle Store! The titles are "The Little Known" and "Heir To The Everlasting." We're hoping soon to add the prequel to "Heir..." in ebook format. My e-novel,"A Righteous Wind," is briefly posted for free on Kindle, with almost 15,000 downloads in the US alone (for more titles by Janice Daugharty, see my author's page--almost 100 novels, short stories and essays to pick from).

I write a lot; I write too much, maybe. But now I'm glad I've spent all those hours writing. I'm an excellent typist too.

See my old typewriter with a spool ribbon I used to have to manually re-ink at Valdosta State University archives, Odum Library. Love my fans, Janice Daugharty, writer in residence at Abraham Baldwin Agriculture College, in Tifton, Georgia

 

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Janice Daugharty's book is sensuous and romantic., April 16, 1999
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Janice Daugharty is a fantastic storyteller. She creates original storylines and unforgettable characters. "Dark of the Moon" is sensuous and romantic, but life affirming as well. The central character, Merdie is unhappily married to an abusive man. When a stranger enters their closed world, she must decide whether to remain the dutiful wife and stay with her family or lose everything and leave with the man she has fallen in love with. Merdie's dilemma is enlightening and inspiring; sometimes you must follow your heart. I loved this book so much. Janice Daugharty is a remarkable writer and I am desperate to read any new book that she has written.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best novel ever about moonshiners & their antagonists, March 27, 1999
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A wonderfully sensitive, closely detailed, and altogether excellent novel of an old-moonshine, new-marijuana family and the ATF agent who blows themn apart with love, set on the Florida-Georgia border in the early 1990s. Janice Daugharty is the latest great writer to wear the gorgeous Sounthern-gothic mantle, and she does it justice, as a worthy, witty heir to Flannery O'Connor. Her style sings with new Southernisms and timeless poetics, her characters come to full contradiuctory life in every crackling scene, and her imagination satisfies every last yearning a reader might have. This novel's a gem!
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5.0 out of 5 stars What A Book!!, September 25, 2003
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I love this Southern author. She is awesome. I have read all her books now & I've loved them all. Her books have a little of everything: humor, romance, suspense. I can't wait for any new books that she has coming.
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Soon as I heard the whistle of the six o'clock train at Tarver crossing, I went to listening out for Israel's old piece-of-a-car, sorting its roar from the train's rumble across the woods. Read the first page
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