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Jordan County by Shelby Foote
Before Shelby Foote undertook his epic history of the Civil War he wrote this fictional chronicle--a landscape in narrative--of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock formations. The seven stories in Jordan County move backward in time, from 1950 to 1797, and through the lives of characters as diverse as a black horn player doomed by tuberculosis and convulsive jealousy, a tormented and ineffectual fin de siecle aristocrat, and a half-wild frontiersman who builds a plantation in Choctaw territory only to watch it burn at the close of the Civil War. In prose of almost biblical gravity, and with a deep knowledge of the ways in which history shapes human lives, Foote gives us an ambitious, troubling work of fiction that builds on the traditions of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. Stories in this collection are: Rain Down Home, Ride Out, A Marriage Portion, Child by Fever, The Freedom Kick, Pillar of Fire, and The Sacred Mound.
Shelby Foote was an American historian and novelist. He was born on November 7, 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi, and attended school there until he entered the University of North Carolina. During World War II he served as a captain of field artillery but never saw combat. After World War II he worked briefly for the Associated Press in their New York bureau. In 1953 he moved to Memphis, where he lived for the remainder of his life. Foote was the author of six novels: Tournament, Follow Me Down, Love in a Dry Season, Shiloh, Jordan County, and September, September. He is best remembered for his 3-volume history The Civil War: A Narrative, which took twenty years to complete and resulted in his being a featured expert in Ken Burns' acclaimed PBS documentary, The Civil War. Over the course of his writing career, Foote was also awarded three Guggenheim fellowships. Shelby Foote died in 2005 at the age of 88.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679736165 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679736166 |
| Title | Jordan County |
| Author | Shelby Foote |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1992-06-02 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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