Floodtide (novel)

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Floodtide
AuthorFrank Yerby
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical
PublisherDial Press
Publication date
1950
Media typePrint
Pages342

Floodtide is a 1950 historical novel by the American writer Frank Yerby.[1] It was ranked seventh on the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels that year.[2] Like many of his works of the era it is set in the South during the nineteenth century.

Synopsis[edit]

Ross Pary, the son of a saloon from the poor district of Natchez Under-the-Hill, schemes and fights his way up to join the slaveowner plantation elite of Mississippi.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hill p.136
  2. ^ Korda p.110

Bibliography[edit]

  • Hill, James Lee. Anti-heroic Perspectives: The Life and Works of Frank Yerby. University of Iowa, 1976.
  • Korda, Michael. Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900–1999 : as Seen Through the Annual Bestseller Lists of Publishers Weekly. Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2001.