A Wake for the Living - Paperback

by Andrew Nelson Lytle (Author)

"The Last Agrarian" portrays the history and character of the people of the mid-South through a history of his family, giving, in the words of critic J. A. Bryant, Jr., a "rendering of a bygone world that brings the ache of beauty remembered." Southern Classics Series.

Author Biography

One of the original Southern Agrarians, Andrew Lytle has written four novels, the biography Bedford Forrest and his Critter Company, short fiction, literary criticism, and numerous essays. A former editor of The Sewanee Review, he continues to live in Tennessee.