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Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three
compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to
Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox. Collected together in a
handsome boxed set, this is the perfect gift for any Civil War
buff.
Recreates the Battle of Gettysburg from both the Confederate and Union perspectives.
"I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant's and Lee's armies.... Foote stays with the human strife and suffering, and unlike most Southern commentators, he does not take sides. In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject.... It stands alongside the work of the best of them."--New Republic
FREDERICKSBURG TO MERIDIAN
THIS 24 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Saturday Evening Post Stories, by Shelby Foote. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 141915253X.
THIS 24 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Saturday Evening Post Stories, by Shelby Foote. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 141915253X.
A mesmerizing novel of faith, passion, and murder by the author of The Civil War: A Narrative. Drawing on themes as old as the Bible, Foote's novel compels us to inhabit lives obsessed with sin and starving for redemption. A work reminiscent of both Faulkner and O'Connor, yet utterly original.
Before Shelby Foote under took his epic history of the Civil War, he wrote this fictional chronicle -- "a landscape in narrative" -- of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock formations. The seven stories in Jordan County move backward in time, from 1950 to 1797, and through the lives of characters as diverse as a black horn player doomed by tuberculosis and convulsive jealousy, a tormented and ineffectual fin-de-siecle aristocrat, and a half-wild frontiersman who builds a plantation in Choctaw territory only to watch it burn at the close of the Civil War. In prose of almost Biblical gravity; and with a deep knowledge of the ways in which history shapes human lives -- and sometimes warps them beyond repair -- Foote gives us an ambitious, troubling work of fiction that builds on the traditions of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor but that is resolutely unique.
In September September a magisterial historian of the Civil War charts its distant repercussions in the streets of the contemporary South. By turns wryly comic, ribald, and chilling, Shelby Foote's novel is at once a convincing thriller and a powerful tragicomedy of race.
"The letters are a marvel of literary and artistic criticism; they include narrative blueprints, historical insights, and the occasional personal anecdote."—Kenneth Smith, Washington Times
A magnificently orchestrated novel of two Depression-era Mississippi families which is "as modern as today's newpaper, as old as Mosaic law" (The New York Times) and renders the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy.
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