Bøger af Philip Lee Williams

Retired professor Andrew Lachlan has returned to his family home on a lake in central Georgia to die. And yet he has never felt so alive, so ready to learn about the natural world around him. Having taught all his life, he is ready for solitude. But a young country boy, Willie Sullivan, disrupts Lachlan's search for order and rekindles memories he thought long dead.Lachlan also finds Callie McKenzie, a woman he loved years earlier, and they soon begin to see in each other reflections of the lives they once led. Lachlan's journal of his year by the lake leads him to a deeper understanding of himself and the world.

With an attention to historical detail that brings the past powerfully to the present, Philip Lee Williams's novel reveals a journey of redemption from the Civil War's fields of fire to the slow steps of old age. Winner of the 2004 Michael Shaara Prize for the best Civil War novel.

Told in a double-journal form by the two main protagonists, Far Beyond the Gates is a story of love's cost and necessity and the achingly hard job of making love work in a woman's life.

Moving and filled with unexpected ideas and imagery, The Color of All Things is a love letter from one man to one woman, but it offers love from each of us to all of us. Brimming with a touching and generous joy, this is a book of everyday needs that can only be filled with a genuine and lasting love.

A collection of poems that are intertwined with the natural world of the poet's Georgia country home.

This novel is a comic historical epic with a memorable heroine. While parodying the style of 18th-century novelists such as Henry Fielding, it charts the growth of the beautiful Jenny Dorset as she matures from a headstrong child into a tenacious freedom fighter.

In this moving novel in letters, noted writer Philip Lee Williams imagines the last year of Emerson's brother's sad but transcendent life as he lives with a farm family in Massachusetts. Emerson's Brother shows how this brother, Bulkeley, deals in his own way with many of the themes Waldo did, including nature, self-reliance, and love.

A novel that tells the story of Civil War camp entertainers. It presents the story of the three Blackshear brothers - Jack, Michael, and Henry - and how they turned a boyhood love of performing in their Georgia hometown of Branton into a one of the most famous campfire acts of the Civil War.