One Man in His Time
1922
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.
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“Though he was only twenty-six, he felt that he had watched the decay and dissolution of a hundred years. Nothing of the past remained untouched. Not the old buildings,””
— Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
“not the old trees, not even the old memories. Clustering traditions had fled in the white blaze of electricity; the quaint brick walks, with their rich colour in the sunlight, were beginning to disappear beneath the expressionless mask of concrete. It was all changed since his father's or his grandfather's day; it was all obvious and cheap, he thought; it was all ugly and naked and undistinguished”
— Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
