Category Archives: 1970-1979
Alex Haley. Roots. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1976.
This blockbuster novel, and the television mini-series made from it, are widely acknowledged as the sparks that ignited the genealogical craze in America in the 1970s. It also started a national conversation on topics that had been off limits for … Continue reading
Doris Betts. The River to Pickle Beach. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
In the turbulent summer of 1968, Jack and Bebe Sellars take over the management of Pickerel Beach on the North Carolina coast. Hoping for a peaceful, easy summer, their plans are disrupted by the arrival of several difficult people, including … Continue reading
Filed under 1970-1979, 1972, Betts, Dorris, Brunswick, Coast
Daphne Athas. Entering Ephesus. New York: Viking, 1971.
The Bishop family has fallen on hard times. Forced to leave their large and comfortable house in Connecticut, they move to the small, provincial town of Ephesus, a fictional Piedmont town based on Chapel Hill. In the midst of the … Continue reading
Filed under 1970-1979, 1971, Athas, Daphne, Historical, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Orange, Piedmont
