Raintree County
by Ross Lockridge · first published 1948
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Raintree County by Ross Lockridge Jr. Man the ending destroyed me...
on “Ask HN: What is the most mind blowing book you've ever read?” ↗…not how and why you read, yeah, there are thousands upon thousands of wonderful and unusual books that will narrate a corner of human experience that you've never thought about before. As an anecdote, Raintree County, a 19th-century family saga set in a fictional Southern town, was a cause celebré when it came out in 1948. The movie rights to it were sold before the novel was even published, and the eventual film…
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