Floodtide (novel)

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

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.

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.

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