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The Death of a Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories and a Novella
Pat Carr
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Description for The Death of a Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories and a Novella
Paperback. Presents a collection of stories that takes us into the lives of those left behind during the Civil War. This book tells the story of a Confederate woman's care of and growing affection for a wounded Union soldier, a plantation mistress' singular love for a sick slave child, and an eight-year-old girl's fight for survival. Num Pages: 176 pages, port. BIC Classification: FJH; FJM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Dramatically compelling and historically informed, the stories in acclaimed author Pat Carr's latest collection, The Death of a Confederate Colonel, take us into the lives of those left behind during the Civil War. These stories, all with Arkansas settings, are filled with the trauma of the killing, the dying, and the horrendous wounds of the war. They tell of a Confederate woman's care of and growing affection for a wounded Union soldier, a plantation mistress' singular love for a sick slave child, and an eight-year-old girl's fight for survival against frigid cold, injury, starvation, heartbreak, and lawlessness. Here are women ... Read more
Dramatically compelling and historically informed, the stories in acclaimed author Pat Carr's latest collection, The Death of a Confederate Colonel, take us into the lives of those left behind during the Civil War. These stories, all with Arkansas settings, are filled with the trauma of the killing, the dying, and the horrendous wounds of the war. They tell of a Confederate woman's care of and growing affection for a wounded Union soldier, a plantation mistress' singular love for a sick slave child, and an eight-year-old girl's fight for survival against frigid cold, injury, starvation, heartbreak, and lawlessness. Here are women ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288356
SKU
V9781557288356
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About Pat Carr
Pat Carr, whose stories Leonard Michaels has described as "finely controlled and significantly moving," has written twelve books of fiction, including The Women in the Mirror, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, and If We Must Die, a finalist in the PEN book awards. Her more than one hundred short stories have been published in the Southern Review, Yale ... Read more
Reviews for The Death of a Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories and a Novella
Intensely imagined, elegantly and efficiently told, the eight short stories and the powerful novella comprising Pat Carr's The Death of a Confederate Colonel gracefully summon up for us our past. . . . Pat Carr is an admirably gifted writer, counted among our best and brightest; and this book is a memorable achievement." —George Garrett, author of Death of the ... Read more