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Peachtree Road book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Tenth anniversary edition. Set amidst the grandeur of Old Southern /5. Peachtree Road is the meaty and absorbing story of a city turned on to power and of the privileged inhabitants who led it to its current station as a mecca of business, culture, and progress To say this book is potent does not come close to doing it justice.

More than merely powerful, it is mesmerizing, enthralling, and totally 4/4(). Peachtree Road is the meaty and absorbing story of a Peachtree Road. book turned on to power and of the privileged inhabitants who led it to its current station as a mecca of business, culture, and progress To say this book is potent does not come close to doing it justice/5(16).

A long southern psychological novel, Peachtree Road. book from WW II to the present, about well-to-do Atlanta families and their trials and tribulations. Siddons' (Homeplace, Fox's Earth) Atlanta is more the legacy of Rhett Butler than Ashley Wilkes: its business leaders are forward-thinking and pragmatic; they support the civil-rights movement, bowing to the inevitable for the sake of prosperity; they.

Peachtree Road Anne Rivers Siddons, Author HarperCollins Publishers $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author Buy this book. As in the bestselling Homeplace, Siddons. About the Book Peachtree Road. by Anne Rivers Siddons. Along a quiet street on a hill at the outskirts of Atlanta live a dying breed of Southern aristocrats.

Growing up in sprawling mansions, and attended to by black servants, these Buckhead families form a tight nucleus of wealth and power. This privileged way of life is about to be shattered. PEACHTREE ROAD is the story of two cousins who are tied together by emotional insecurity and by a love which is sometimes profoundly selfless, sometimes destructively selfish.

It is also the story. Peachtree Road is an American novel published in by Anne Rivers is principally set in Atlanta, Georgia and fictionalizes the experience of several wealthy Atlanta families from the s through the s.

The title refers to the section of Peachtree Street that runs through the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta and where the central character's family home is : Anne Rivers Siddons.

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Connect with us: 26 Upcoming events at Buckhead - Atlanta, GA. Month February March April. Peachtree Road is the meaty and absorbing story of a city turned on to power and of the privileged inhabitants who led it to its current station as a mecca of business, culture, and progress To say this book is potent does not come close to doing it justice.

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Peachtree Road is like an extremely tall ice tea on a blistering southern day. It is long, and drawn out at times, but so cool and refreshing.

If you do not like descriptive narrative this book may not work for you. Personally, I think that it it exemplifies the southern tradition of storytelling.5/5(5). Montego Bay - Peachtree Road is located in the North Ocean City district of Ocean City, a 6-minute walk from Ocean City Beach, miles from Fenwick Island State Park Beach and a minute walk from Northside Park.

The property is 8 miles from Ocean City Boardwalk and 8 /10(6). Peachtree Road by Anne Rivers Siddons Lucy came to live with us in the house on Peachtree Road, when she was five and I was seven, and before that April day was over I learned two things that altered almost grotesquely the landscape and weather of my small life.

Get this from a library. Peachtree Road: a novel. [Anne Rivers Siddons] -- Lucy Bondurant Chastain Venable comes to live with her cousin's family in the great house on Peachtree Road, and the story of astonishing love and hate between a man and a woman begins.

Discussion Questions 1. Peachtree Road begins with the famous sentence, "The South killed Lucy Bondurant Chastain Venable on the day she was born." How so.

What aspects of the South laid the groundwork for her "textbook murder" before Lucy was even born. Her books are consistent bestsellers, with 's Peachtree Road () arguably her biggest commercial success.

Described by her friend and peer, Pat Conroy, as "the Southern novel for our generation," the book sheds illuminating light on the changing landscape of.

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"Peachtree Road" is a huge, sprawling novel. It is also a carefully wrought one that somehow manages to retain the grace and delicacy of the world it mourns. Most important, it is a compulsively.

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Join us in Morningside or Buckhead. Tickets available at We are all thirsting /5(50).A masterful tale of love, hate, and rebellion set in an elite world of class and wealth, New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons's Peachtree Road is the unforgettable story of the turbulent growth of a great Southern city and of two people cursed by blood and birth.2/5(2).Peachtree Road is the meaty and absorbing story of a city turned on to power and of the privileged inhabitants who led it to its current station as a mecca of business, culture, and progress To say this book is potent does not come close to doing it : Anne Rivers Siddons.