Book Overview
A beautifully narrated novel of time and place, "Goodbye to the Buttermilk Sky" re-creates a southern summer when the depression and the boll weevil turned hopes to dust. With the extraordinary talent to make the reader see the Ball canning jars on the kitchen table, hear the clicks on the party line, and feel the bittersweet moments of 20-year-old Callie Tatum's first experiences with adult desire, Oliver portrays a young wife's increasingly dangerous infidelity with cinematic precision and palpable suspense.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1881320189
ISBN13:9781881320180
Release Date:January 1994
Publisher:Black Belt Press
Length:191 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Worth your time
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I found this book on my book shelf and I'm not really sure where it came from but opened it and was very interested when I saw that it was written in my state's capitol and published in my very own town. I enjoyed it and finished it in record time. Worth your time!
Loved this book!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
I enjoyed this book very much & hated for it to end. I was very aggravated with Callie from time to time & wanted to shake her but at the same time she is a very likeable character. I loved the time period & the author did a fantastic job writing about the South. I hope that the author gives us more like this book. Read it!! If you like books about the south & romance you will like this one.
BACKWOODS WIFE TASTES LIFE BEYOND FENCE
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 28 years ago
A mother of grown children who writes a superlative first novel deserves being celebrated, which is the case of Julia Oliver and her GOODBYE TO THE BUTTERMILK SKY. The rural south of the '30's, with its clabber, scuppernongs, tree frogs, and croker sacks, is as tangible as 20-year-old Callie, her depressed husband, and the blue-eyed stranger who leads Callie to fulfillment. Suspense steadily tightens throughout this tale of illicit love, a libidinous minister, rape, and murder, and culminates in an unexpectedly satisfying ending. Fair warning: meet Callie on page 1, and you, like her, can't resist going all the way.
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