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Jacob's Ladder: A Novel of Virginia During the Civil War
by McCaig, Donald
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0140282653
- ISBN 13
- 9780140282658
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Penguin Books, New York, 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. Fifth Impression or later. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 525 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Jacob's Ladder is a Civil War epic, a love story that pits the indomitable longing of the human heart against circumstances of racism, slavery, and war. Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to the Gatewood plantation, falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto slave, who conceives a son, Jacob. Maggie and Jacob are sold south, and Duncan is packed off to the Virginia Military Institute. As Duncan fights for Robert E. Lee, Jesse--a Gatewood slave whose love for Maggie is unrequited--escapes north and enlists in Lincoln's army, determined to confront his former masters, while Maggie finds herself living a life she never could have imagined as the wife of a blockade runner. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; United States; 19th century; ISBN: 0140282653. ISBN/EAN: 9780140282658. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7465. . 9780140282658
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7465
- Title
- Jacob's Ladder: A Novel of Virginia During the Civil War
- Author
- McCaig, Donald
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140282653
- ISBN 13
- 9780140282658
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- BZDB137 american civil war, confederacy, confederate, virginia, fiction, Fiction; United States; 19th century; ISBN: 0140282653 EAN: 9780140282658 McCaig, Donald Jacob's Ladder: A Novel of Virginia During the Civil War
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