Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War - Couverture rigide

McCaig, Donald

 
9780393046298: Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War
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ISBN 10 : 039304629X ISBN 13 : 9780393046298
Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 1998

Synopsis

A novel that resonates with the bitter glory and deep human shame of the Confederacy. Against the epic canvas of the Civil War, the people, black and white, of one Virginia plantation fulfill their unforgettable destinies. Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to Gatewood Plantation, falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto slave, who conceives a son, Jacob. Maggie and Jacob are sold south, and Duncan is packed off by his irate father to the Virginia Military Institute. As a cadet, Duncan guards the gallows of John Brown; as a man he will fight for Robert E. Lee. Another Gatewood slave, Jesse--whose love for Maggie is unrequited--escapes to find her and is sheltered by a young white couple who are sentenced to prison for this crime. Jesse finds his freedom and enlists in Mr. Lincoln's army; in time he will confront his former masters. From the interlocked lives of masters and slaves, and from a wealth of carefully researched yet unobtrusive historical detail, Donald McCaig conjures a passionate and richly textured story in the heart of America's greatest war. The loves, letters, and struggles of the characters connect a Vicksburg brothel to a Richmond salon, the riches of a sleek blockade runner with scenes of dire poverty, and the nightmare of a confederate hospital to the lurid hell of the battlefields at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. The Civil War is the wellspring of much of our most notable literature, and from this rich, poignant material McCaig has fashioned an unusual and powerful tale, a Confederate masterpiece.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Donald McCaig, the author of Jacob's Ladder, Rhett Butler's People and Canaan. He and his wife, Anne, work a sheep farm in the western mountains of Virginia.

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Éditeur
WW Norton & Co
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
039304629X
ISBN 13 
9780393046298
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
448
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780393337105: Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the Civil War

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0393337103 ISBN 13 :  9780393337105
Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2009
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