G. Owen McGinnis, M.D.
Heritage Books, 2009.
4.0 / 5.0
Set in the era of Laura Ingalls Wilder but maybe closer to the sentiment of Cormac McCarthy, Gaston Owen McGinnis' novel touches the serendipity of the frontierswomen while visiting the qualm of the modern writer. The tone of A Third Life, then, falls into a most authentic and believable territory. Whether the reader believes what the characters say concerning the Civil War, slavery, Reconstruction, life, death, and God; he will believe
they believe it. The descriptions of antebellum life come with archaic colloquialisms and the dialogue is written phonetically to better convey the feeling of that time.
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