num_pages: 404
description: The novels of Gail Godwin are contemporary classics--evocative, powerfully affecting, beautifully crafted fiction alive with endearing, unforgettable characters. Her critically acclaimed work has placed her among the ranks of Eudora Welty, Pat Conroy, and Carson McCullers, firmly establishing Godwin as a Southern literary novelist for the ages. Father Melancholy's Daughter, is widely recognized as one of the author's most poignant and accomplished novels -- a bittersweet and ultimately transcendent story of a young girl's devotion to her father, the rector of a small Virginia church, and of the hope, dreams, and love that sustain them both in the wake of the betrayal and tragedy that diminished their family.
language: English
title: Father Melancholy's Daughter
titlecomplete: Father Melancholy's Daughter
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Religion, Adult, Southern, Fiction, Contemporary, Christian, Family
ratings_count: 2007
series: Margaret Bonner
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Alabama Author Award
category: Fiction
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks