The River Road Francis Parkinson Keyes Julian Messner Publication

Gervais d' Alvery, heir to Belle Heloise - a famous estate on Louisiana's "Grand Prarie" - returns fro the First World War joyously acclaimed as a hero. But he finds his plantation neglected, his mother, a self-centered neurotic, and his sister Cresside running disatrously true to the current form of "flaming youth"