The River is Home is the story of Skeeter, a young boy growing up in a Louisiana family poor in material goods but rich in the appreciation of their beautiful natural surroundings. The river--with its food supply, floods, steamboats--figures strongly in their lives as the source of life and death. The River is Home met with critical acclaim and launched Patrick Smith into his career as a novelist.
Angel City follows the course of the Teeters, a West Virginia family come to Florida to better their lives. What they find is degradation in a migrant labor camp. Though it is repellant to believe, Smith's depiction of conditions in Florida migrant labor camps as late as the seventies was based on fact. His expose of those camps in Angel City served its intended purpose: to bring about change. As interest increases in the novels of Patrick Smith, literary historians are sure to place this near the top rank of his output.
About The River is Home: "I unreservedly recommend this novel. It is simply and powerfully written, with plenty of local color. The River is Home stands out in the reader's mind as a work of art." --New Orleans Times-Picayune
About Angel City: "A hurricane of a novel." --Erskine Caldwell
About Angel City: "This is a story that should have been told a long time ago by someone who recognized the need to tell it. Patrick Smith had the guts to tell it, and to tell it very well indeed. I salute him." --Richard Boone
ISBN: 0-910923-64-7
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
400 Pages
| How Many? | Title | Binding | Price | Order? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The River is Home and Angel City | Hardback | $19.95 |