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Charles Alexander, a young man groomed from birth by his mother to be a Baptist minister, accidentally witnesses the murders. The killer is Hope Kirby, World War II hero, member of a large mountain clan of farmers, who has discovered his wife's infidelity. Although Kirby's code of honor requires that he exact vengeance, it won't allow him to kill an innocent bystander, so Charles goes free, promising not to tell what he's seen. But Charles does tell, and we watch, fascinated, as a trial, an appeal, and a new terror unleashed on the countryside draw the entire county into the action. An Affair of Honor is the story of a crime - a crime with so many unforeseeable repercussions and nuances that it will take five decades to untangle. It is the story of a society's transformation at mid-century, the transformation on every level - spiritual, sexual, racial and political. For the scope of the narrative and the power of the prose, this great novel may be compared with Faulkner and Dostoevsky.
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"The man is a consummate storyteller and a loving, wise, and compassionate writer" -- ROBERT WARD, New York Times
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A gripping double murder propels the small, Bible-obsessed town of Bourbonville, Tennessee, into the wider society opening up in the years following World War II.
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- PublisherThe Harvill Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1843430088
- ISBN 13 9781843430087
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages608
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