Secessia

Kent Wascom

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Language: English

Published by Grove Press, New York, 2015

0802123619 / 9780802123619

Series: Book 2 of 3 - The Woolsack Family

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BU0 - A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by author on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket Dust jacket has label on the front, dust jacket and book have some bumped cornes, light discoloration and shelf wear. A haunting tale of greed and malformed love, of slavery and desperation, Secessia weaves a vivid tapestry of a dark period in New Orleans's turbulent history. 9.5"x6.5", 339 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. From the immensely talented author of The Blood of Heaven comes a gothic portrait of a city ravaged by war and struck by vice and disease - Civil War New Orleans. With his virtuosic, richly historical prose, Wascom carves a tale of insurrection and ill-advised romance, spanning one year in the city at the heart of Secessia, the rebellious just-conquered South. New Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen to Union troops under the soon-to-be-infamous General Benjamin "the Beast" Butler. The city is rife with madness and rage. When twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he draws into the unrest his mother, Elise, a mixed-race woman passing for white, and his father, Angel, whose long and wicked life is drawing to a close. What follows forces mother and son into a dark new world: Joseph must come to grips with his father's legacy of violence and his growing sentiment for Cuban exile Marina Fandal, the only survivor of a shipwreck that claimed the lives of her parents. Elise must struggle to maintain a hold on her sanity, her son and her own precarious station, but is threatened by the resurgence of a troubling figure from her past, Dr. Emile Sabatier, a fanatical physician who adores disease and is deeply mired in the conspiracy and intrigue surrounding the occupation of the city. Their paths all intersect with General Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts, a man who history will call a beast, but whose avarice and brutal acumen are ideally suited to the task of governing an "ungovernable city." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

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Title
Secessia
Author
Kent Wascom
Publisher
Grove Press, New York
Publication year
2015
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Very Good
Signed
Signed by Author
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0802123619
ISBN 13
9780802123619
Edition
First Edition.
Series
Book 2 of 3: The Woolsack Family
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