Peachtree Road: A Novel
- New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.
- 590 p.
- The National Bestseller .
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Lucy Bondurant Chastain Venable is a beautiful burning flame of a woman, a woman of great passion and terrible need. Sheppard Gibbs Bondurant III, Lucy`s cousin and lifelong confidant, is a man turned recluse because of his own fatal feelings. Their mesmerizing story begins on the childhood day when Lucy comes to live with Shep`s family in the great house on Peachthree Road. Set in one of the South`s most elite societies, here is a novel that chronicles the rurbulent changes of a great city - and gives us the unforgettable story of the astonishing love and hate between one woman and one man.