{"product_id":"south-moon-under-9780813081649","title":"South Moon Under","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn often-overlooked early work--and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--by celebrated writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, now available in this Florida Edition with a new foreword for today's readers by Lauren Groff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1933, \u003ci\u003eSouth Moon Under\u003c\/i\u003e is the first novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Set in the Big Scrub of Florida, a sparsely inhabited backwoods near Rawlings's homestead at Cross Creek, the novel tells a multigenerational tale of the rural Lantry family and their struggle to eke out a living on the land. It depicts pioneer existence before Florida's twentieth-century tourism and development--and displays the literary powers that would earn Rawlings the Pulitzer Prize six years later for her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Yearling\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduced with a foreword by contemporary writer Lauren Groff, this edition of \u003ci\u003eSouth Moon Under\u003c\/i\u003e encourages today's readers to engage with this lesser-known work. With accounts of moonshining, logging and turpentining, hunting, cattle running, foodways, and frontier justice, Rawlings made an impact on American literary culture of her time by shining a light on the people and customs of the scrub. And in this book the Florida wilderness itself emerges as an unforgettable character, a force of its own alive with mystery, richly described by Rawlings alongside unsentimental stories of survival in a bygone century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813081649\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266","brand":"Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53024731824309,"sku":"9780813081649","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9780813081649.jpg?v=1787667930","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/south-moon-under-9780813081649","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}