The Make Believers
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Overview
This sprawling novel concerns the lives of two generations in
one family; of their loves both licit and illicit, of their work,
and of their personal triumphs and tragedies. It is a story, at
first, about the three Woodruff brothers: Peter, a businessman,
Leonard, an artist, and Ike, an attorney and member of Congress who
risks his political career to prevent a lynching and bring justice
to a black man falsely accused of murder. And it is about George
Islar, a thoughtful physician, and his beautiful wife, Margaret,
who is loved by Leonard. It is a triumphant expression of the human
spirit, of the artist and of the forces that inevitably mold the
lives of each succeeding generation, told by a modern master who
has lived to see all of the ages of man about which he so
consummately writes.
Winner of the New American Writing Award
“An epic of two families, the Izlars and the Woodruffs, whose lives move in parallel lines and sometimes intermingle, Fleming’s aristocrats are the descendants of Faulkner’s Sartoris and Compson families. Illicit love, Southern justice in the early 20th century, and finally the conflict between desire to become an artist and the assumption of family responsibilities are the themes that govern the work and weave themselves into the fabric of this splendid novel.” —The Kansas City Star
“An epic of two families, the Izlars and the Woodruffs, whose lives move in parallel lines and sometimes intermingle, Fleming’s aristocrats are the descendants of Faulkner’s Sartoris and Compson families. Illicit love, Southern justice in the early 20th century, and finally the conflict between desire to become an artist and the assumption of family responsibilities are the themes that govern the work and weave themselves into the fabric of this splendid novel.” —The Kansas City Star
Product Details
- Title : The Make Believers
- Author: Fleming, Berry
- Publisher: The Permanent Press
- Publication Date: 2015
- ISBN: 9781504009867
Berry Fleming was an American novelist. He is best known for
his 1943 novel Colonel Effingham’s Raid. He was born in 1899
and died in 1989. Permanent Press reissued several novels in the
80s. He received a resurgence in popularity with the publication of
his last novel, Captain Bennett’s Folly, in 1989 just months
before his death. The work was favorably reviewed in The New
York Times, among other publications, and since then many of
his earlier neglected novels have been republished with more
successful sales than during his lifetime.