Two Rivers [Hardcover]

Naomi Williams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2002

Coming of age saga about an unforgettable heroine who grapples with poverty, ignorance, prejudice and parochialism in the Carolina low country prior to World War I.

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About the Author

Naomi Williams was born in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, where her novel is set between two rivers, the Little Pee Dee and the Great Pee Dee and the land between, Britton's Neck. She lives in Augusta, Georgia, where she retired from Augusta Preparatory Day School in 1993, concluding 42 years teaching English in public and private schools. Upon her retirement, Augusta Preparatory Day School honored her with a scholarship bearing her name. At present she is working on her second novel, Jacob's Daughter, also set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, though not a sequel to Two Rivers.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 380 pages
• Publisher: Harbor House (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1891799088
• ISBN-13: 978-1891799082
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,457,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Southern Heroine with Universal Appeal, October 31, 2002

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Tillman W. Nechtman (Irvine, Ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Two Rivers (Hardcover)

Naomi Williams' novel is a finely crafted piece that expresses all the rich heritage of Southern fiction through the person of a female protagonist that speaks to a universal audience. The novel's protagonist, Liza, will captivate all those who have ever felt constrained by society through her deeply rooted desire to breech boundaries imposed on her from without, and the novel's other characters wrap Liza in a rich quilt of human responses to her passionate personality that will speak to all readers, regardless of their age or their background. Williams' profound style evokes character and place so that we can almost smell the thick Lowcountry mud that borders the banks of the "Two Rivers" that shape Liza's life.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Eloquent and Enduring Journey, October 29, 2002

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Debbi Jones (Augusta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Two Rivers (Hardcover)

Naomi Williams's first journey into published prose explodes in the first description of the South Carolina lowcountry she has committed to memory and experience. As Williams's young protagonist, Liza Marion Brown, searches feverishly for a violet among the daisies, we are seduced into her lifelong quest for color in an insular world of bland expectations and bleak hopes. Clinging to her mother's legacy of butterbeans and Paul Scarlet roses, Liza uses the past to secure a future of dreams hard-fought, but realized. This imaginative, resourceful protagonist will seduce you down her river and into her heart, revealing family secrets, shattering expectations, and renewing your faith in the endurance and intelligence of the individual. If you live north of the Mason-Dixon line, you need to embrace this new emblem of Southern feminism and lay to rest the beleaguered and banal Scarlett as your symbol of all this region epitomizes. Two Rivers is not only an eye-opener -- it is the breath and soul of the human journey.