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OverviewThis debut novel by Shelby Foote, a major Southern writer whose masterpiece is The Civil War: A Narrative, introduces Hugh Bart, a farmer confronting life's problems in the postbellum South. Hugh's story is told through a clever blend of rich language and flashbacks that bring to life Jordan County, Foote's fictional Mississippi Delta community. Many of the remarkable characters introduced here will become staples of Foote's future works. Highly praised both here and abroad, Foote's novels have been on bestseller lists in France and Italy. Whether writing historical narrative or novels, Shelby Foote clearly belongs to the first rank of American writers of our century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shelby Foote , Professor Grover Gardner , Professor Grover GardnerPublisher: Blackstone Publishing Imprint: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Library Edition Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 18.00cm Weight: 0.458kg ISBN: 9780786195909ISBN 10: 0786195908 Publication Date: 01 February 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsLavish in its expenditure of literary capital that could have made up...three or four novels. -- Louis D. Rubin, Jr., author of Uptown/Downtown in Old Charleston It is a great joy to witness...the flowering of Shelby Foote. [Tournament] is rife with glimpses of the writer he has since become. -- Southern Living [Grover Gardner's] pleasant voice creates believable characters who metamorphose from words to reality with regional accents, interesting intonations, and antique expressions. -- AudioFile Foote, like Faulkner, sees the Deep South with an unblinking eye. -- L'Express Author InformationShelby Foote (1916-2005) was an American historian and novelist who came from a long line of Mississippians. After attending the University of North Carolina, he served in World War II as a captain of field artillery in the European theater. He wrote six novels and was awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships in the twenty-year course of writing his monumental three-volume history, The Civil War: A Narrative. Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over eight hundred titles to his credit. Named one of the Best Voices of the Century and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |