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The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations (Paperback)
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The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations (Paperback)
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Loot Price R249
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The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck (1921) is a comic romance novel by
James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy
collide, where the laws of chivalry and honor continue to hold sway
in postbellum South, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck is included in
a series of novels, essays, and poems known as the Biography of the
Life of Manuel. "For Colonel Musgrave was by birth the lineal head
of all the Musgraves of Matocton, which is in Lichfield, as degrees
are counted there, equivalent to what being born a marquis would
mean in England. Handsome and trim and affable, he defied
chronology by looking ten years younger than he was known to be." A
man of honor and tradition, Colonel Musgrave comes from a prominent
family whose wealth and power once depended on its ownership of
slaves. Despite his illustrious title, "won by four years of
arduous service at receptions and parades while on the staff of a
former Governor of the State," Musgrave is a librarian whose
influence in town depends largely on the esteem of his ancestors.
When a distant cousin visits Lichfield, bringing with her the
intellect and wit of a modern woman, Colonel Musgrave finds how
easily traditions can falter. Set in a fictionalized Southern town,
The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck is a captivating, hilarious tale of
chivalry and romance. Cabell's work has long been described as
escapist, his novels and stories derided as fantastic and obsessive
recreations of a world lost long ago. To read The Rivet in
Grandfather's Neck, however, is to understand that the issues
therein-the struggle for power, the unspoken distance between men
and women-were vastly important not only at the time of its
publication, but in our own, divisive world. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of James Branch Cabell's The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck is a
classic of fantasy and romance reimagined for modern readers.
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