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The Amalgamation Polka: Stephen Wright

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Synopsis:

With The Amalgamation Polka, Stephen Wright extends his previous accomplishments with a Civil War novel unlike any other.

Born in 1844 in bucolic upstate New York, Liberty Fish is the son of fervent abolitionists as well as the grandson of Carolina slaveholders even more dedicated to their cause. The mounting national crisis costs Liberty's mother her life and compels him - in hopes of reconciling the familial disunion - to escape first into the cauldron of war and then into a bedlam more disturbing still.

The Amalgamation Polka is rich in characters both heartbreaking and blood-curdling, both comic and horrific - yet, for the brutality and tragedy, it is exuberant in the telling and wide in its compassion, brimming with the language, manners, hopes and fears of its time.

This is the work of a major writer at the top of his form.

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Fiction

Sub-categories:

General Fiction

Places:

America

Genres & Themes:

American Fiction; Slavery; War