Year of Jubilo

A Novel of the Civil War

by Howard Bahr

A Civil War veteran named Gawain Harper returns to Mississippi to claim his beloved, Morgan Rhea, and return to his job as a schoolteacher. His hot-headed new father-in-law, however, insists that he kill a local white supremacist who is also a murderer responsible for the deaths of Morgan's sister and her husband. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.

Available editions of Year of Jubilo

	9780805059724, Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co, 2000 $1.00 (Very Good ) Other copies of 9780805059724

	9780787125264, Audio Cassette, New Star Media Inc, 2000 None currently available

	9780312280697, Paperback, Picador USA, 2001 $1.00 (Good ) Other copies of 9780312280697

Publisher Notes

On a spring day in 1865 Gawain Harper trudges toward his home in Cumberland, Mississippi, after serving three years in the Mississippi Infantry. Unmoved by the cause that motivated so many others, he had joined up only when the father of his beloved, Morgan Rhea, told him that he would never be allowed to wed Morgan unless he contributed to the war effort. Upon his return, he discovers post-war life is far from what he expected. Morgan has indeed waited for him, but before they can marry there are scores to be settled. Written with scrupulous respect for historical accuracy, The Year of Jubilo brilliantly evokes a time of sorrow and defeat, of anarchy and violence, and also of hope and rebuilding.

Media Reviews

"A brilliantly woven civil War story....[A] stunningly imagined and lyrically written chronicle....The shadow of Faulkner looms over an intricate webwork of festering secrets, conflicting passions, and ancestral guilt. No matter. THE YEAR OF JUBILO is a giant step forward for Bahr."

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