Jordan County Paperback - 1992
by Shelby Foote
The author of the epic Civil War history creates an unforgettable fictional chronicle of seven generations in Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war and Reconstruction are as tangible as geological formations. "Marvelously exact and positive".--The New Yorker.
From the jacket flap
Before Shelby Foote under took his epic history of the Civil War, he wrote this fictional chronicle -- "a landscape in narrative" -- of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock formations. The seven stories in Jordan County move backward in time, from 1950 to 1797, and through the lives of characters as diverse as a black horn player doomed by tuberculosis and convulsive jealousy, a tormented and ineffectual fin-de-siecle aristocrat, and a half-wild frontiersman who builds a plantation in Choctaw territory only to watch it burn at the close of the Civil War. In prose of almost Biblical gravity; and with a deep knowledge of the ways in which history shapes human lives -- and sometimes warps them beyond repair -- Foote gives us an ambitious, troubling work of fiction that builds on the traditions of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor but that is resolutely unique.
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- Title Jordan County
- Author Shelby Foote
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1992-06-02
- ISBN 9780679736165 / 0679736166
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.22 x 0.68 in (20.35 x 13.26 x 1.73 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Mississippi - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91050723
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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