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ADICKS, RICHARD

 
9781561646265: A COURT FOR OWLS
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ISBN 10: 1561646261 ISBN 13: 9781561646265
Editorial: Globe Pequot Press, 2019

Sinopsis

The son of a Baptist preacher, Lewis Powell joined the Florida Jasper Blues to fight for the Confederacy in 1861. He soon had a fateful encounter with John Wilkes Booth and was drawn into the plot to kidnap Abraham Lincoln. In 1865 he was tried as a conspirator in the assassination of Lincoln, during which Powell attacked and wounded Secretary of State William Seward. From these facts and other scattered details of the life of Lewis Powell (alias Lewis Payne), Richard Adicks has constructed a historical novel that moves us into the heart of the war between the North and the South and into the crosscurrents of idealism and fanaticism. Rich in the color and detail of the Civil War, this tale moves from rural Florida to Powell’s baptism by fire in the early battles of the war. Wounded and captured at Gettysburg, he serves as a prisoner nurse in a field hospital until he escapes to Baltimore. There he falls in love with Mary Branson and soon becomes mired in fringe regiments doing the dirty work of the faltering cause. By 1865 he is pulled deeper into Booth’s mad effort to avenge the defeated Confederacy.

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Acerca del autor

Richard Adicks, a sixth-generation Floridian, grew up in Lake City and now lives in Lakeland. He studied at the University of Florida and Tulane University and has taught English at Rollins College, Tulane, Georgia Tech, the University of Central Florida, and Africa University. Besides articles on literature and Florida history, he has written a history of Oviedo, Florida, where he and his wife, Mildred, lived for several years.

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Editorial
Globe Pequot Press
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1561646261
ISBN 13 
9781561646265
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Número de páginas
331
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