The Year of Jubilo - Hardcover

Bahr, Howard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805059725 ISBN 13: 9780805059724

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc, 2000

Synopsis

From the author of the award-winning novel "The Black Flower" comes a novel about a Confederate soldier returning home to find that life-and love-will never be the same. On a balmy spring day in 1865 Gawain Harper trudges toward his home in Cumberland, Mississippi, where three years earlier he had boarded a train carrying the latest enlistees in the Mississippi Infantry. Unmoved by the cause that motivated so many others, he had joined up only when Morgan Rhea's father told Gawain that he would never wed his beloved Morgan unless he did his part in the war effort. Now, upon his arrival, 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. For in his hometown yet another battle is being waged, and the enemy is not the occupying Federal troops, but Cumberland's own King Solomon Gault, a deranged, manipulative man on a mission to restore his own brand of justice to a community turned upside down. As Gawain struggles to find a way to avenge the Rhea family's honor, he is drawn into an inexorable showdown with Gault that once again pits South against North, and dignity against defeat. 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. A poignant and sweeping novel that reveals the human side of one of the most trying and pivotal moments in American history, it is sure to catapult Howard Bahr to the top rank of American novelists.

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Review

" A sweeping, cinematic story of rebellion, loyalty, revenge and reawakened romance." -- "The New York Times Book Review"
" A writer of uncommonly beautiful phrases and compelling characters, Bahr has twice managed to convey truths about the human condition within the confines of the American Civil War." -- "Christian Science Monitor"
" Bahr infuses this story with the pathos and tragedy of the war itself. In the poetry of its prose, The Year of Jubilo rises to the majesty of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address." -- "Atlanta Journal-Constitution"
" Like Wolfe and Faulkner, Bahr has a poet's heart, a philosopher's mind, an artist's spirit, and a lover's soul." -- Roy E. Perry, "Nashville Tennessean"
“A sweeping, cinematic story of rebellion, loyalty, revenge and reawakened romance.” —"The New York Times Book Review"
“A writer of uncommonly beautiful phrases and compelling characters, Bahr has twice managed to convey truths about the human condition within the confines of the American Civil War.” —"Christian Science Monitor"
“Bahr infuses this story with the pathos and tragedy of the war itself. In the poetry of its prose, The Year of Jubilo rises to the majesty of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address.” —"Atlanta Journal-Constitution"
“Like Wolfe and Faulkner, Bahr has a poet’s heart, a philosopher’s mind, an artist’s spirit, and a lover’s soul.” —Roy E. Perry, "Nashville Tennessean"
"A sweeping, cinematic story of rebellion, loyalty, revenge and reawakened romance." --"The New York Times Book Review"

"A writer of uncommonly beautiful phrases and compelling characters, Bahr has twice managed to convey truths about the human condition within the confines of the American Civil War." --"Christian Science Monitor"

"Bahr infuses this story with the pathos and tragedy of the war itself. In the poetry of its prose, The Year of Jubilo rises to the majesty of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address." --"Atlanta Journal-Constitution"

"Like Wolfe and Faulkner, Bahr has a poet's heart, a philosopher's mind, an artist's spirit, and a lover's soul." --Roy E. Perry, "Nashville Tennessean"

A sweeping, cinematic story of rebellion, loyalty, revenge and reawakened romance. "The New York Times Book Review"

A writer of uncommonly beautiful phrases and compelling characters, Bahr has twice managed to convey truths about the human condition within the confines of the American Civil War. "Christian Science Monitor"

Bahr infuses this story with the pathos and tragedy of the war itself. In the poetry of its prose, The Year of Jubilo rises to the majesty of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. "Atlanta Journal-Constitution"

Like Wolfe and Faulkner, Bahr has a poet's heart, a philosopher's mind, an artist's spirit, and a lover's soul. "Roy E. Perry, Nashville Tennessean""

"A sweeping, cinematic story of rebellion, loyalty, revenge and reawakened romance." --The New York Times Book Review

"A writer of uncommonly beautiful phrases and compelling characters, Bahr has twice managed to convey truths about the human condition within the confines of the American Civil War." --Christian Science Monitor

"Bahr infuses this story with the pathos and tragedy of the war itself. In the poetry of its prose, The Year of Jubilo rises to the majesty of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address." --Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Like Wolfe and Faulkner, Bahr has a poet's heart, a philosopher's mind, an artist's spirit, and a lover's soul." --Roy E. Perry, Nashville Tennessean

About the Author

Howard Bahr teaches English at Motlow State Community College in Tullahoma, Tennessee. His first novel, "The Black Flower," was a "New York Times Book Review" Notable Book and received the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0805059725
• ISBN 13: 9780805059724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384