Three O'Clock DinnerUniv of South Carolina Press, 2001 - 296 стор. "Three O'Clock Dinner is a delight."--Weekly Book Review First published in 1945 to international acclaim and winner of the Southern Authors Award, Three O'Clock Dinner is Josephine Pinckney's best-selling novel about an ill-fated marriage on the eve of World War II. This powerful tale written by a consummate Charleston insider and set in the historic city resonates with universal appeal by daring to touch on topics that had been taboo. Three O'Clock Dinner reveals how the modern world has intruded in a most unwelcome way upon the Redcliffs, a Charleston family long on pedigree but short on cash. Mortified when their son "Tat" elopes with the henna-hairied daughter of the Hessenwinkles, an especially galling bourgeois clan, the Redcliffs are determined to respond with civility. They invite their son, his new wife, and her family for Sunday dinner, served at the traditional time of three in the afternoon. Tension builds across an expanse of white damask. After mint julep aperitifs, dinner claret, and Madeira toasts, a chance remark ignites the novel's climax amid a flurry of raised voices, hurt feelings, and broken china. Their new daughter-in-law's revelation further shatters the Redcliffs' well-ordered society but opens a door to forgiveness and redemption. |
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Josephine Pinckney. THREE C K K DINNER JOSEPHINE PINCKNEY with an introduction by Barbara L. Bellows THREE O'CLOCK DINNER This One C458 - R7B - RG4Y. Front Cover.
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Josephine Pinckney. THREE O'CLOCK DINNER JOSEPHINE PINCKNEY with a new introduction by Barbara L. Bellows UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS Published in cooperation with the Institute for Southern Studies and the South Caroliniana ...
... Three O'Clock Dinner copyright 1945 by Josephine Pinckney ; First published by the Viking Press in September 1945 Published in Columbia , South Carolina , by the University of South Carolina Press Manufactured in the United States of ...