Secessia: Signed

Wascom, Kent

ISBN 10: 0802123619 / ISBN 13: 9780802123619

Published by Grove Press, U.S.A., 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Secessia: Signed
• Publisher: Grove Press, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802123619
• ISBN 13: 9780802123619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1ST.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

<div>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 &#147;the Beast&#8221; 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&#8217;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 &#147;ungovernable city.&#8221;<br><br>Alternating between the perspectives of the five characters of Elise, Dr. Sabatier, Joseph, Marina, and Butler, <i>Secessia</i> weaves a tapestry of ravenous greed and malformed love, of slavery and desperation, set within the baroque melting-pot that is New Orleans. A Gothic <i>tableaux vivant</i> of epic scope and intimate horror, <i>Secessia</i> is the netherworld reflection of the conflict between north and south.<br></div>

About the Author

Kent Wascom’s first novel, The Blood of Heaven, was named a best book of the year by theWashington Post and NPR. It was shortlisted for the David J. Langum Sr. Prize for Historical Fiction, and longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan Award for First Fiction. Wascom was awarded the 2012 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for Fiction. He lives in Louisiana.