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Delaware Huggins, mild-mannered, under-educated, and draft-exempt, leaves his Georgia home, hoping to find work in a shipyard during World War II; but before he can reach the coast, he finds himself coerced into marrying a headstrong, newly minted widow a few years his senior, Tweeve Cumbee. Several months into his marriage, a part-time job at a second-rate movie house results in his being charged with the Saturday night murders of the theater manager and its ticket seller.
At Tweeve's insistence, Delaware rejects the court's offer of appointed counsel and agrees to permit her to represent him. Even though Tweeve lacks legal training and Delaware's status as an outsider makes the job of defending him before a jury more complicated, she exudes confidence. In her view, lawyers are nothing but sales people anyway. She believes all one need possess to try a court case is sales ability and "walking around sense" and she has plenty of both.
But once the trial begins, Tweeve learns there's a little more to it than that as she battles a skilled prosecutor in Solicitor Kilmann and contends with corrupt police officials, Sheriff Hightower and Detective Lieutenant Motley, and three witnesses of doubtful veracity, Booger Blue, Greasy Pea, and Looney Luster.
Though not a romance, Her Own Law is a love story told in a Southern vernacular reminiscent of the style employed by Mac Hyman in his work No Time for Sergeants. As the tale unfolds, it gives a glimpse of small-town life in the South during the middle nineteen forties and offers the feel of the "us-against-them" ethic of justice that can arise almost anywhere at any time.
Her Own Law edition by Bert Goolsby Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
Absolutely Great writing. Wonderful and complicated characters who are very believable. Story is told in first person in the dialect of a poor uneducated yet intelligent young man who though a victim of circumstance never fails to hold to integrity. The heroine is strong, smart, aggressive and lovable. She pushes righteous indignation to a higher level as she becomes the story, which placed in the 1940's captures the time and place perfectly.Product details
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Her Own Law edition by Bert Goolsby Health Fitness Dieting eBooks Reviews
If you were born in the South or have had any time to enjoy Southern culture you will certainly enjoy reading this book. A wonderful mixture of old memories, humor, mystery, and suspense. Be prepared to finish this book in one reading after the initial characters have been developed. Goolsby has a real talent that has been hidden too long.
In Bert Goolsby's Her Own Law, an uneducated, bumbling, but innocently appealing young man from Georgia stumbles into an unexpected marriage and an unexpected murder charge as he crosses the rural South in the early 1940's. His wife undertakes to defend him, in a trial that produces a satisfying variety and number of twists and turns. In addition to the main characters, Delaware Huggins, and Tweeve, his strong-minded, Bible-quoting wife, the novel portrays other memorable figures, such as Booger Blue and Greasy Pea, two unlovely lovers; Loony Luster; and the Baby Buggy man, a Northern stranger who seeks repentance and finds redemption. The book gives a view of a small Southern town during World War II, with its soldiers, its race and class distinctions, and its "us" and "them" ethic.
The pace of the book is as rhythmic as its language and the humor is so quick you find yourself laughing before you've even reached the end of the sentence. This is a love story but without a romance, in which the narrative clips along and step by step builds with intensity until an unexpected source saves the day. The smooth, lilting Southern vernacular is a voice to be read or heard and the ending is as smooth as a bowl of ice cream on a sweet-smelling Southern night. This is an excellent story, exquisitely told.
Bert Goolsby's other publications include "Sweet Potato Biscuits and Other Stories" and "The Box with the Green Bow," which has been produced also as a Christmas theatre production. Anyone who has lived in the South will recognize in these books as well as in "Her Own Law" the voice of a true Southern storyteller, a storyteller who gives voice to universal truths.
After reading Bert Goolsby's wonderful new novel, Familiar Shadows, I just had to go back and read the prequel, Her Own Law. Where Familiar Shadows is more of a coming-of-age story, Her Own Law evolves into a court room drama. Both books are excellent and they can be read independently.
Delaware and Tweeve Huggins, and Skeets McLendon appear in both books, although Her Own Law is told through the eyes (and vernacular) of Delaware. Originally from Georgia, Delaware is on his way to find work at a ship yard during World War II. Before he can arrive at his destination, he finds himself married to the headstrong Tweeve. Delaware is a mild-mannered, God-fearing but uneducated man. Wanting some money for Christmas gifts, he gets a part-time job at the Azalea Movie Theater. But a heinous crime is committed at the Azalea and Delaware is the prime suspect. Not having the money for a lawyer (and not trusting them, anyway), Tweeve decides to defend her husband in what becomes a riveting, moving and often funny story. Tweeve might not have much formal education, but she is street-smart and sassy and she will pull out all the stops (especially the Bible) when it comes to defending her man.
Bert Goolsby writes in a homey style reminiscent of the rural South in the 1940s. He also imparts Delaware with a keen sense of observation despite his lack of schooling. When Tweeve wants something, Delaware observes "I knowed this much. She wasn't nobody to mess with. I'd done learned during the little bit of time I'd been there that when she went after something she'd go after it like a Jehovah Witness'd go after a door knocker." As for lawyers, "She went on talking about lawyers. She said that watching one of them do his work in court was pretty much like watching a salesman do hisen. About the only difference she seen between them, she said, was the salesman sold things, likes shoes or brushes or Bibles, and the lawyer sold stories."
Goolsby includes a number of lessons in Her Own Law. Things like how it's important to stand by those you love. And how lazy police work and prejudice towards outsiders can keep the legal system from seeing that justice is done. Yet, there was much humor in Her Own Law and I found much of it entertaining. I just about fell off my chair from laughing so hard when Booger Blue testified in court! The names themselves are entertaining, including Booger Blue, Greasy Pea and Judge Faircloth. And the letters from Uncle Frank to Delaware are a stitch.
Bert Goolsby is one of those authors who needs to become more well known--and not just in South Carolina. His books should be made into movies, they're that good. Bert is just finishing his newest novel, The Trials of Lawyer Pratt. I'm counting the days until it's published.
Absolutely Great writing. Wonderful and complicated characters who are very believable. Story is told in first person in the dialect of a poor uneducated yet intelligent young man who though a victim of circumstance never fails to hold to integrity. The heroine is strong, smart, aggressive and lovable. She pushes righteous indignation to a higher level as she becomes the story, which placed in the 1940's captures the time and place perfectly.
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