Nostalgia

McFarland, Dennis

ISBN 10: 1482928574 ISBN 13: 9781482928570

Publisher: Blackstone Pub, 2013

Synopsis

Leaving his schoolteacher sister and his baseball career to serve in the Civil War, young Summerfield Hayes struggles with secret feelings for his sister throughout grueling battlefield experiences and while seeking shelter and a sense of identity after being abandoned by his comrades.

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Review:

**"Washington Post" Best 50 Books of the Year**
Searing, poetic, and often masterly. . . . McFarland s descriptions of 19th-century life . . . are stunning in their lyricism and detail. . . . That [he] can make such a difficult subject matter both entertaining and essential is a tribute to his evident literary talents. . . . A perfect Civil War novel for our time, or any time. "The New York Times "
Fascinating. . . . [A] terrific novel about . . . the entirely human instinct to retreat in one s own mind, at least from horror. "The Washington Post"
Walt Whitman, who haunts the pages of this sensitive, ingenious, beautifully written novel, famously said that the real Civil War would never get into the books. "Nostalgia" deftly explores an aspect of war little understood in Whitman s time or in our own the invisible wounds combat inflicts upon many of those who somehow manage to survive it. Geoffrey C. Ward, coauthor of "The Civil War" and author of "A Disposition to Be Rich"
Emotionally harrowing . . . McFarland manages to find something new to say about a war that could have had everything said about it already . . . A moving account of one soldier s journey to hell and back, and his struggle to make his own individual peace with the world afterward. " Publishers Weekly"
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**Washington Post Best 50 Books of the Year**

"Searing, poetic, and often masterly. . . . McFarland's descriptions of 19th-century life . . . are stunning in their lyricism and detail. . . . That [he] can make such a difficult subject matter both entertaining and essential is a tribute to his evident literary talents. . . . A perfect Civil War novel for our time, or any time." --The New York Times

"Fascinating. . . . [A] terrific novel about . . . the entirely human instinct to retreat--in one's own mind, at least--from horror." --The Washington Post

"Walt Whitman, who haunts the pages of this sensitive, ingenious, beautifully written novel, famously said that the real Civil War would 'never get into the books.' Nostalgia deftly explores an aspect of war little understood in Whitman's time or in our own--the invisible wounds combat inflicts upon many of those who somehow manage to survive it." --Geoffrey C. Ward, coauthor of The Civil War and author of A Disposition to Be Rich

"Emotionally harrowing . . . McFarland manages to find something new to say about a war that could have had everything said about it already . . . A moving account of one soldier's journey to hell and back, and his struggle to make his own individual peace with the world afterward."--Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

DENNIS McFARLAND is the author of six previous novels: Letter from Point Clear, Prince Edward, Singing Boy, A Face at the Window, School for the Blind, andThe Music Room. His short fiction has appeared in The American Scholar, The New Yorker, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, andBest American Short Stories, among other publications. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, where he has also taught creative writing. He lives in rural Vermont with his wife, the writer and poet Michelle Blake.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Pub
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1482928574
• ISBN 13: 9781482928570
• Binding: Audio CD