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Jacob's Ladder

by McCaig, Donald



  • Bookseller: Old Goat Books CA (CA)
  • Seller Inventory #: 1015803
  • Format: Softcover
  • Book condition: NF.
  • Edition: 1st pb.
  • Binding: Paperback
  • ISBN 10: 0140282653
  • ISBN 13: 9780140282658
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Date published: 1999
  • Pages: 525 pages.
  • Size: 5.5 x 8.75 x 1.25 inches
  • Weight: 1.05 pounds

Description

Penguin, 1999. 1st pb.. Softcover. NF.. Permeated with a wealth of scrupulously researched historical detail, McCaig conjures up the interlocked lives of masters and slaves so skillfully that he has gained praise from African American historians and the descendants of confederate veterans. Jacob's Ladder was lauded by the Virginia Quarterly as "the best Civil War novel ever written". Heavy book may require more postage. Trade Paperback

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Book summary

A historical novel that begins in 1934 when a WPA worker interviews a 90-year-old Virginian who discloses the dark secrets of a prominent family. The Civil War is the background for that story, which involves racial tension in many guises, beginning with a liaison between a wealthy teenage boy and a slave girl.


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