One Man in His Time

Virginia, 1920. The war is over and the old world is dying. Stephen Culpeper, last heir of a declining aristocratic family, watches helplessly as everything he inherited, everything that defined him, gets dismantled by forces he cannot control. Then comes Gideon Vetch: a self-made man from the wrong side of the tracks, now governor, the very symbol of everything Stephen despises. But fate has a cruel sense of humor. Patty Vetch, the governor's daughter, walks into Stephen's life like a door left open to a world he's not prepared to enter. She is nothing like the women he was raised to command. She is bold, unsettling, alive in ways the faded Southern belle's never were. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, one of Virginia's greatest novelists, writes with sharp precision about what happens when a man built for a world that no longer exists must choose between his pride and his heart. This is Southern literature at its most incisive: a story of class, change, and the terrifying freedom of a world that refuses to stand still.