This version of Marjorie Kinnan Rawling's first novel captures the richness of the Florida wetlands and tells the story of a young man, Lant, who must support himself and his mother by making and selling moonshine. "South Moon Under" was included in the Book-of-the-Month Club and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Life in the Scrub,
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This review is from: South Moon Under (Hardcover)
South Moon Under is beautifully written with fascinating detail and plenty of suspense. Rawlings wrote this story of subsistence living in the Florida scrub country after living with a moonshiner family for several weeks. The picture of their struggle to eke a living in this marginal land makes for fascinating reading. But the more important aspect of this novel is the revelation of what government laws and power mean in the every day lives of people living only a hair's breath away from starvation. We see how immoral and corrupt laws and those who enforce them destroyed the delicate balance of survival for the people of the scrub. I don't know if she intended it to be, but this is an anti government, libertarian novel and an important contribution to the historical record. Every liberty lover would gain much from reading this book.
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A Lament for the Death of Old Florida.,
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SOUTH MOON UNDER is a page flipper and hard to set aside. Definitely 5 Star Quality.
True, it's a tale of the demeaned and marginalized Florida Cracker, who ekes a living from the Scrub, avoiding unnecessary contact with civilization; but Rawlings' anthropology is soaked with death. Her book is a lament for the death of Old Florida. Civilization destroys the land and the critters and the people.
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