At the Fall Line: A Novel | signed (gertrude m books)
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A Civil War veteran becomes entangled with three women who have suffered a family tragedy.
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“He survived the war to save the nation, now he must survive its Reconstruction … and his own inner war…. An intriguing historical romance set in Reconstruction Virginia. Flawless revelation of that time and place.“ — Ron Andre, A Matter of Fancy
In 1869 Virginia, three women mourning a little girl turn for comfort to Louis, a granite quarry foreman and Union veteran.
Louis falls in love with the child’s aunt, and his employer, but she is married, virtuous — unattainable. Seeking means to wed elsewhere, he brings a law suit against a cousin who ruined his father. The suit stirs up dead causes and deadly chicanery, while his relations with the mother and sister of the girl child grow dangerously intimate.
Rooted in the beloved homeland whose cause he fought against with all his heart, Louis yearns for a woman who cannot be his and for a life that war and time have forever undone.
Praise for Jean Huets’ With Walt Whitman Himself: In the Nineteenth Century, In America
A true Whitmanian rests—for the intellect as well as for the eyes… The book keeps opening up to new facets of Whitman, his work, and his era.” — Ed Folsom, editor of Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
An outstanding account of Whitman’s life and times. This tribute to a great American writer should be in every U.S. library.” — Compulsive Reader
Huets has made a book of marvels and I can’t put it down. — Steve Scafidi
About Jean Huets
Jean Huets is co-author, with Stuart R. Kaplan, of The Encyclopedia of Tarot and author of The Cosmic Tarot book, based on the visionary art of Norbert Loesche. Her book With Walt Whitman, Himself was acclaimed as “a book of marvels” by poet Steve Scafidi and “a true Whitmanian feast” by scholar Ed Folsom. Her writing can be found in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, The Millions, The Rumpus, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, North American Review, and Civil War Monitor, and she is a member of and volunteer book reviewer for Historical Novel Society. She co-founded Circling Rivers, which publishes literary nonfiction and poetry. Visit jeanhuets.com
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AT THE FALL LINE: A Novel, by Jean Huets | gertrude m books
ISBN: 978-1-939530-30-1 (trade paper)
US $19.99 | 308 pp
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Publication date: July 2024 | Request review copy
ISBN: 978-1-939530-30-1 | trade paper | 312 pp. | 5.5 x 8.25 | US $19.99
Also available in hardcover ISBN 978-1-939530-31-8 and as ebook
FIC019000 FICTION / Literary
FIC014060 FICTION / Historical / Civil War Era
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