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Jordan County by Shelby Foote

Jordan County

A Novel

A Novel

By Shelby Foote

By Shelby Foote

By Shelby Foote

By Shelby Foote

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Jun 02, 1992 | ISBN 9780679736165

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    About Jordan County

    Before Shelby Foote under took 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 — and sometimes warps them beyond repair — Foote gives us an ambitious, troubling work of fiction that builds on the traditions of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor but that is resolutely unique.

    About Jordan County

    Before Shelby Foote under took 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 — and sometimes warps them beyond repair — Foote gives us an ambitious, troubling work of fiction that builds on the traditions of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor but that is resolutely unique.

    Also by Shelby Foote

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    Also by Shelby Foote

    The Civil War Trilogy Box Set
    The Beleaguered City
    Stars in Their Courses
    Follow Me Down
    Love in a Dry Season
    See all books by Shelby Foote

    About Shelby Foote

    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… More about Shelby Foote

    About Shelby Foote

    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… More about Shelby Foote

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $14.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jun 02, 1992 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679736165

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 09, 2011 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780307779274

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    "Mr. Foote’s writing is marvelously exact and positive. His attitude toward his people is respectful , and human, as though he had thought about them a great deft and knew too much about them to take them for granted."–The New Yorker

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