Author: Dennis R. Perry (Dennis R. Perry)

Originally published in 1963 by the Ohio State University Press, Ohio Town quickly drew a near-cult following that Harper & Row would now evidently like to amplify in the wake of Santmyer’s best selling ” . . . And Ladies of the Club.” This personal diary of a small, Midwestern town’s evolution can be best...

The reader knows from the outset of Miss Read’s 30th anachronistic novel of village gossip that the “affairs” at Thrush Green are not of the illicit variety. This latest amble into the not-so-lively lives of the middle-aged people last encountered in Read’s Gossip Prom Thrush Green (1981) presents a world dominated by old-fashioned simplicity and...