Skirmishes With The Ladies Of The Magnolias

Skirmishes with the Ladies of the MagnoliasIn the end, one is reduced to the pop wisdom about her--she does finally derive from that ancient dream of doomed plantation chivalry before the tragic gray crusade: a lost Arthurian age of heroic hoof-hammering romance and sylphic women, their chaste pale faces haloed by the murmurous glow of candelabra on midsummer evenings reeling with jasmine. Never mind those occasional sweet and furious midnight skirmishings with cousins out in the muscadine arbor...