The Confederate General Rides North
Language: English
Published by Scribner's, New York, 2009
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Blue boards with quarter gray boards, silver gilt lettering on spine. Signed by author on title page, dated 2010. Unclipped dust jacket. 276 pp.
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- Title
- The Confederate General Rides North
- Author
- Gable, Amanda C.
- Publisher
- Scribner's, New York
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- very good
- Binding
- Boards
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1416598391
- ISBN 13
- 9781416598398
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction-Southern
Eleven-year-old Katherine McConnell is so immersed in Civil War history that she often imagines herself a general, leading troops to battle. When Kats beautiful, impulsive mother wakes her early one morning in the summer of 1968 to tell her they will be taking a road trip from Georgia to Maine to find antiques for a shop she wants to open, Kat sees the opportunity for adventure and a respite from her parents troubled marriage. Armed with a road atlas and her most treasured history books, Kat cleverly charts a course that will take them to battlefields and historic sites and, for her mothers sake she hopes, bring them home a success. But as the trip progresses, Kats experiences test her faith in her mother and her loyalty to the South, bringing her to a dif- ficult new awareness of her family and the history she reveres. And when their journey comes to an abrupt and devastating halt in Gettysburg, Kat must make an irrevocable choice about their ultimate destination.
Deftly narrated with the beguiling honesty of a childs per- spective and set against the rich backdrop of the South during the 1960s, The Confederate General Rides North gracefully blends a complex mother-daughter relationship, the legacy of the Civil War, and the ache of growing up too soon.
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""The Confederate General Rides North" is the compelling story of Kat McConnell, an endearing young heroine who survives life on the road with her mother by retreating into her vast knowledge of Civil War history. She reenacts battles and imagines war-torn landscapes in a way that reflects her own life while also offering escape. Amanda Gable is a first-rate storyteller and her portrayal of Kat's psychological survival on this often harrowing journey is moving and memorable." -- Jill McCorkle, author of "Carolina Moon" and "Creatures of Habit"
" I have just traveled the Civil War battlefields of Gettysburg and Manassas with eleven-year-old Katherine McConnell, the precocious and tenderhearted heroine of "The Confederate General Rides North". What a trip it was! With beautiful writing and a plot that stampedes to its conclusion, author Amanda Gable poignantly navigates the bumpy roads of troubled families and the young girls who must endure them. Like the heroes who obsess her, Kat McConnell will take her place in your heart and memory." -- Betsy Carter, author of "Swim to Me" and "The Puzzle King"
"This whimsical -- and impressive -- debut novel, with its fresh, original take on a difficult mother-daughter relationship, rings true in every word. Indeed, readers everywhere will love being drawn into Gable's -- and into Katherine's -- oh-so-original world." -- Rosemary Daniell, author of "Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives"
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