Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War
by: Donald McCaig
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140282658
ISBN: 0140282653
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: June 01, 1999
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Sales Rank: 90346
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Reminiscent of Cold Mountain and Gone with the Wind, a civil war saga of a Virginia plantation family fulfilling its unforgettable destiny. Widely acclaimed, with comparisons to Margaret Mitchell and Shelby Foote, Jacob's Ladder is a rich and poignant novel. It is the story of Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to the Gatewood Plantation in Virginia. Duncan falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto slave, who bears him a son, Jacob. Maggie and Jacob are sold south, and Duncan is packed off by his irate father to the Virginia Military Institute. As a cadet, Duncan guards the gallows of John Brown; as a man he will fight for Robert E. Lee and the South. Another Gatewood slave, Jesse--whose love for Maggie is unrequited--escapes to freedom and enlists in Mr. Lincoln's army; in time he will confront his former masters.
Permeated with a wealth of scrupulously researched historical detail, McCaig conjures up the interlocked lives of masters and slaves so skillfully that he has gained praise from African American historians and the descendants of confederate veterans. Jacob's Ladder, lauded by the Virginia Quarterly as 'the best Civil War novel ever written,' is an epic tale that resonates with all the bitter glory and deep human shame of America's greatest war.
--Winner of the John Esten Cooke Fiction Award from the Military Order of the Stars and Bars
--'McCaig's new saga captures the details of wartime Virginia with stunning force....Think Cold Mountain; think Gone with the Wind.' --People
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- A fine study that conveys a lot thru the genre of historical fictionThis story really gets going after the first 100 pages or so and certainly rewards the reader's persistence. ... Read More
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- great characters!I loved this book. Filled with descriptions of life during the Civil War from everyones differing points of ... Read More
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- Conflicts Of The WarJacob is a child of a thirteen year old slave and Duncan Gatewood. The Gatewoods are a slave-owning Virginia ... Read More
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- Jacobs LadderThis book was purchased because of a book club and it was the book of the month. I found it not as interesting ... Read More
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- A Strange Title for a Very Good BookThis is one of the very best books I have read on the Civil War - and I'm a "War Between the States" buff. The title ... Read More
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