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In the spring of 1864 all prisoner-of-war exchanges between the North and the South had been halted. For captured soldiers, being condemned to the increasingly overcrowded prison camps was tantamount to a death sentence. A Soldier's Book opens as Ira Cahill Stevens, a young Union soldier, is on his way to the notorious Andersonville prison camp. Day by day, Ira shares the horrific details of a world that is growing ever more barbaric and absurd, with its "dead lines," starvation, cruelty, filth, and false rumors of exchange. Yet even in the face of terror and despair, Ira remains hopeful, and with the help of an impromptu family of fellow soldiers, he struggles to survive, only to witness each friend picked off by death or insanity. A powerful and historically accurate novel, A Soldier's Book leaves the reader not only with a richer sense of the Civil War but of the resiliency of the human spirit.
Autoren-Porträt von Joanna Higgins
Joanna Higgins has taught at colleges in the United States and in England and is the author of the novels Dead Center and A Soldier's Book, which was a finalist for the 2007 Michael Shaara Award for Civil War fiction. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Award for fiction, and her short stories appear in several anthologies, including the Best American Short Stories series.
Bibliographische Angaben
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Autor:
Joanna Higgins
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2015, 208 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: The Permanent Press
- ISBN-10: 1504024001
- ISBN-13: 9781504024006
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.11.2015
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Dateiformat: ePub
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Größe: 0.37 MB
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