An edition of Devil's Dream (2009)

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An edition of Devil's Dream (2009)

Devil's dream

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From the author of All Souls' Rising which The Washington Post called "A serious historical novel that reads like a dream," comes a powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary, of Civil War generals. With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his previous works, Madison Smartt Bell gives us a wholly new vantage point from which to view this complicated American figure. Considered a rogue by the upper ranks of the Confederate Army, who did not properly use his talents, Forrest was often relegated to small-scale operations.In Devil's Dream, Bell brings to life an energetic, plainspoken man who does not tolerate weakness in himself or in those around him. We see Forrest on and off the battlefield, in less familiar but no less revealing moments of his life: courting the woman who would become his wife; battling a compulsion to gamble; overcoming his abhorrence of the army bureaucracy to rise to its highest ranks. We see him treating his slaves humanely even as he fights to ensure their continued enslavement, and in battle we see his knack for keeping his enemy unsettled, his instinct for the unexpected, and his relentless stamina.As Devil's Dream moves back and forth in time, providing prismatic glimpses of Forrest, a vivid portrait comes into focus: a rough, fierce man with a life fill of contradictions.From the Hardcover edition.

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Pantheon Books
Language
English

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2009, Pantheon Books
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Devil's Dream
2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3552.E517 D48 2009, PS3552.E517D48 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23175495M
Internet Archive
devilsdream00bell
ISBN 13
9780375424885
LCCN
2009009534
OCLC/WorldCat
310399784
Library Thing
8692441
Goodreads
6560835

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