✍ Ludewig, Alexandra;
📂 Fiction
📅 2014
🌐 English
⚖ 546 KB
👁 1 views
✦ LIBER ✦
Nostalgia
✍ Scribed by Dennis McFarland
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon Books
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 224 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
**From best-selling author Dennis McFarland, an extraordinary Civil War novel: the journey of a nineteen-year-old private abandoned by his comrades in the Wilderness, struggling to regain his voice, his identity, and his place in a world utterly changed by what he has experienced on the battlefield.
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In the winter of 1864, young Summerfield Hayes, a pitcher for the famous Eckford Club, enlists in the Union army, leaving his sister, a schoolteacher, devastated and alone in their Brooklyn home. The siblings, who have recently lost both their parents, are unusually attached, and Summerfield fears his untoward secret feelings for his sister. This rich backstory is intercut with stunning scenes of Hayes's soul-altering hours on the march and at the front--the slaughter of barely grown young men who, only days before, whooped it up with him in a regimental ball game; his temporary deafness and disorientation after a shell blast; his fevered attempt to find safe haven after...
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