The Robber Bridegroom

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1978

ISBN-13: 9780547544373

<DIV><B>The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a classic fairy tale and turns it into a novel set along the eighteenth-century frontier of the Natchez Trace.</B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> In the clammy forests of Louisiana, somewhere between New Orleans and the muddy Mississippi River, the berry-stained bandit of the woods, Jamie Lockhart, saves the life of a gullible planter. In reward, Jamie is given shelter&mdash;only to kidnap the planter&rsquo;s lovely young daughter, Rosamund. It&rsquo;s an impulsive act that will have far-reaching consequences, and will set in motion a series of fantastic, murderous, and flamboyantly uncivilized romantic adventures.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> With legendary figures of Mississippi&rsquo;s past&mdash;including notorious riverboatman Mike Fink and the thrill-killing Harp brothers&mdash;mingling side-by-side with characters from legendary fairy tales and the author&rsquo;s own imagination, <I>The Robber Bridegroom</I> in an exuberant cocktail of fantasy, folklore and history along the treacherous Natchez Trace. &#160;<BR /> The basis of the popular musical that has run both on and off Broadway, The Robber Bridegroom is &ldquo;a modern fairy tale, where irony and humor, outright nonsense, deep wisdom and surrealistic extravaganzas becomes a poetic unity through the power of a pure exquisite style&rdquo; (<I>The New York Times</I>)<I>. </I><BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;As sly and irresistible as anything in <I>Candide.</I> For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautiful.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The New Yorker</I></DIV>