By Janice Holt Giles
Foreword by Morris A. Grubbs
Books
Price: $35.00
Format: cloth
ISBN: 0-8131-2299-6
Subjects: Fiction, Kentucky and Regional Studies
Pages: 360
Year Published: 2003
Discount: short
The rich history of river life in Kentucky permeates Janice Holt Giles’s novel Run Me a River . Set in 1861, at the beginning of Kentucky’s reluctant entry into the Civil War, the novel tells the story of a five-day adventure on the Green River. Aboard the Rambler, a ramshackle steamboat, Captain Bohannon Cartwright and his crew journey 184 miles and pick up two extra passengers along the way. The boatmen rescue “Sir Henry” Cole, a former Shakespearean actor, and his granddaughter Phoebe from their skiff when it overruns in a squall. As romance blossoms between Phoebe and Captain Bo, a conflict escalates between Confederate and Union forces fighting for control of the river.Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979) was the nationally acclaimed author of many books,
