New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1957) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by one of the major writers of contemporary Southern fiction. Although Jones won many awards in his lifetime, his work is not as well known as it should be. This is the story of a young man returning to his father's farm in Tennessee after a failed career and a disastrous marriage only to find change, regimentation and a loss of freedom everywhere he looks. The idealistism of Duncan Welsh is contrasted with the wilfully evil Aaron McCool, a moonshiner encamped on Duncan's family's property. 370 pp.