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Raintree County: Ross Lockridge
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Raintree County is a long, ambitious novel whose main character carries out a personal journey against a backdrop of both natural and contstructed landscapes. While the primary focus of the novel is Shawnessy's constant struggle to understand his dreams and his life, Lockridge portrays a protagonist whose strong connection to nature pervades his entire life.
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Raintree County is a novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr.. It tells the story of a small-town Midwestern teacher and poet who, in his younger days before his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War, met and married a beautiful Southern belle; ... her emotional instability leads to the destruction of their marriage.
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Raintree County (1957), based on the innovative modern novel by Ross Lockridge Jr., was one of the last of the big-screen studio epics produced by MGM in the 1950s. Though the lengthy book was condensed for the film version this story of John Shawnessy, a young idealist who is swept up in two complex love affairs and ultimately the Civil War itself, still required considerable musical delineation. Green’s solution was to create a score built around a restrained title song and a Wagnerian assortment of leitmotifs for the various characters, settings, and relationships. (There are at least four themes representing various aspects of the hero’s emotional/love life).
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American writer, known for his 1066 pages long historical novel, Raintree County (1948). It was the only book Ross Lockridge Jr. wrote. Two months after its publication by Houghton Mifflin, Lockridge committed suicide. He left no suicide note. The novel was an immediate bestseller and was later made into a major film in the tradition of Civil war romance. Although Raintree County is seldom read today, it is ... a true classic in the sense that a "classic has never finished saying what it as to say" (Italo Calvino).
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