A Soldier's Book: A Novel of the Civil War - Couverture souple

Higgins, Joanna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156007274 ISBN 13 : 9780156007276

Editeur : Mariner Books, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Higgins Joanna

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In the spring of 1864 all prisoner-of-war exchanges between the North and the South had been halted. For captured soldiers, being condemned to the increasingly overcrowded prison camps was tantamount to a death sentence. A Soldier's Book opens as Ira Cahill Stevens, a young Union soldier, is on his way to the notorious Andersonville prison camp. Day by day, Ira shares the horrific details of a world that is growing ever more barbaric and absurd, with its "dead lines," starvation, cruelty, filth, and false rumors of exchange. Yet even in the face of terror and despair, Ira retains hope, and with the help of an impromptu family of fellow soldiers, he struggles to survive, only to witness each friend picked off by death or insanity. A powerful and historically accurate novel, A Soldier's Book leaves the reader not only with a richer sense of the Civil War but of the resiliency of the human spirit.

Revue de presse :

"Like Charles Frazier in Cold Mountain, Higgins manages to create through one small story a lyrical snapshot of an entire nation in mortal turmoil."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Higgins has produced a novel of uncommon power, a provocative look at the souls of men under incredible, almost unendurable, circumstances. A Soldier's Book deserves to be read."-The Denver Post
"Joanna Higgins has crafted a spare, intense, incredibly moving debut novel, a Civil War drama in which historically accurate details bring fictional characters to resonant life."-San Antonio Express-News

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0156007274
• ISBN 13: 9780156007276
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192