{"product_id":"south-moon-under","title":"South Moon Under","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn often-overlooked early work—and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—by celebrated writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, now available in this Florida Edition with a new foreword for today’s readers by Lauren Groff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1933, \u003ci\u003eSouth Moon Under\u003c\/i\u003e is the first novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Set in the Big Scrub of Florida, a sparsely inhabited backwoods near Rawlings’s homestead at Cross Creek, the novel tells a multigenerational tale of the rural Lantry family and their struggle to eke out a living on the land. It depicts pioneer existence before Florida’s twentieth-century tourism and development—and displays the literary powers that would earn Rawlings the Pulitzer Prize six years later for her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Yearling\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduced with a foreword by contemporary writer Lauren Groff, this edition of \u003ci\u003eSouth Moon Under\u003c\/i\u003e encourages today’s readers to engage with this lesser-known work. With accounts of moonshining, logging and turpentining, hunting, cattle running, foodways, and frontier justice, Rawlings made an impact on American literary culture of her time by shining a light on the people and customs of the scrub. And in this book the Florida wilderness itself emerges as an unforgettable character, a force of its own alive with mystery, richly described by Rawlings alongside unsentimental stories of survival in a bygone century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499399848309,"sku":"9780813081649","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780813081649.jpg?v=1786694704","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/south-moon-under","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}