The Sweet Everlasting: A Novel

by Judson Mitcham

Book Overview

At the age of 74, Ellis Butt recalls a simple life that unfolded against the complex, ever-changing background of the American South, from the Depression through the difficult birth of Civil Rights. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820318078
• ISBN13: 9780820318073
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

What a beautiful book.

This novel is so beautiful and heart-breaking. It just kicks you in the stomach, but I can't recommend it highly enough. My mother is from a small town in Georgia and I grew up spending lots of summers there and reading The Sweet Everlasting was like looking at family photographs or hearing my grandmother tell us stories. I was not expecting to love this much as much as I did.

Do not read reviews for this book.

Although critical reviews for this book are accurate and give it much deserved praise, do not read them. Let Ellis Burt tell his story to you the way he wants to--give him his own timing. To know the story beforehand is to take away your involvemnent in the terrible and powerful discoveries that he must make as a human being: about others, his society, and himself. This is a tale of sin and redemption. To know his sins too soon is to underappreciate his redemption--what there can be of it.

Outstanding Novel

Life can change in an instant. Picked an old paperback copy of this up at a used book sale. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Easily one of the best "stories" I've read in years (and I read many, many contemporary fiction novels). If you ever take your relationships (family or friends) for granted, read this book. You won't anymore. It's extremely well written; authentic without seeming contrived.

Sweet Evelasting

Tremendous book. This is the best book I've read in the last 3 years. Very readible, incredibly moving. This is not brain candy. It will make you think for a long time afterwards.

A touching and gripping introspective.

The storyteller carefully nurtures the recollections of the people, places and events that have shaped his destiny. And, in the end, provides a powerful, emotional understanding of the importance of love.