{"product_id":"at-home-on-st-simons-an-autobiography-paperback","title":"At Home on St. Simons: An Autobiography - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEugenia Price\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe millions who have read Eugenia Price's novels know that central to each story is a strong, deeply-rooted \u003ci\u003esense of place\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eLighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e, there is New St. Clair; in \u003ci\u003eNew Moon Rising\u003c\/i\u003e, there is Black Banks; in \u003ci\u003eThe Beloved Invader\u003c\/i\u003e, there is Christ Church and the spacious house Anson Dodge built for the bride who never lived in it - all of these places are familiar to Price readers who fall in love with her Island settings whether they see and visit them or not. (The same is true of her Florida trilogy. In \u003ci\u003eMaria\u003c\/i\u003e, there is the ancient house in St. Augustine, now known as the oldest house; in \u003ci\u003eDon Juan McQueen\u003c\/i\u003e, the St. George Street house; and in \u003ci\u003eMargaret's Story\u003c\/i\u003e, the large, white rambling plantation house on the banks of the St. Johns River at Hibernia.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHere, for the first time outside the pages of a small Island newspaper called \u003ci\u003eGeorgia's Coastal Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e, Eugenia shares with her worldwide reading public, some of what life was like during the first years in which she and her best friend and fellow writer, Joyce Blackburn, were becoming Islanders. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These short pieces,\" Genie says, \"include my observations day by day of what it was like, at last, to be \u003ci\u003eat home on St. Simons\u003c\/i\u003e. We were learning how to be neighbors, after so many years of complex life in the huge northern city of Chicago; learning how to care deeply for people with whom, at first glance, we had little in common. We were understanding what it really meant to have \u003ci\u003ecome home\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEugenia Price, called by many St. Simons' own \"beloved invader,\" tells you here about those early years as they were being lived. Her \u003ci\u003eSt. Simons Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, cherished by thousands, was written from memory and notes in old desk calendars, but \u003ci\u003eAt Home on St. Simons\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates some of the experiences which most changed her--as they occurred.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 17, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46561839644857,"sku":"9781684427420","price":26.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/thoobo.com\/products\/at-home-on-st-simons-an-autobiography-paperback","provider":"Thoobo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}