Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky
plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of
this powerfully dramatic novel. At her father's death Amantha
learns that her mother was a slave and that she, too, is to be sold
into servitude. What follows is a vast panorama of one of the most
turbulent periods of American history as seen through the eyes of
this star-crossed young woman. Amantha soon finds herself in New
Orleans, where she spends the war years with Hamish Bond, a slave
trader. At war's end, she marries Tobias Sears, a Union officer and
Emersonian idealist. Despite sporadic periods of contentment;
Amantha finds life with Tobias trying, and she is haunted still by
her tangled past. Oh, who am I? she asks at the beginning of the
novel. Only after many years, after achieving a hard-won wisdom and
maturity, does she begin to understand the answer to that question.
Band of Angels puts on ready display Robert Penn Warren's
prodigious gifts. First published in 1955, it is one of the most
searing and vivid fictional accounts of the Civil War era ever
written.
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