Description
Book SynopsisThe first novel by a young native of south Georgia,
Swamp Water was an immediate critical and financial success. The setting is the mysterious Okefenokee in southern Georgia, ""the Swamp that pulled a man down and never let him go."" Movie versions were made in 1941 (by Jean Renoir) and in 1951.
Trade ReviewSwamp Water is, in a sense, melodrama―a fast, taut, somewhat lurid yarn. . . . Mr. Bell, however, knows his people and his background so thoroughly, writes with so much simplicity and directness and such a complete lack of sensationalism, that his story is lifted above the category of the merely thrilling and picturesque. Swamp Water, in fact, is not only a very good tale but very nearly a brilliant one." —
New York Times"This is the sort of American story Americans take to their bosoms, and with good reason." —
Times Literary Supplement
