| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
ix, 339 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"New Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the ill-starred confederacy has fallen to Union troops under the soon-to-be-infamous General Benjamin 'the Beast' Butler ... When twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he draws into the unrest his mother Elise, a mixed-race woman passing for white, and his father Angel, whose long and wicked life is drawing to a close. What follows forces mother and son into a dark new world: Joseph must come to grips with his father's legacy of violence and his growing sentiment for Cuban exile Marina Fandal... Elise must struggle to maintain a hold on her sanity, her son, and her own precarious station, but is threatened by the resurgence of a troubling figure from her past" -- dust jacket flap. |
| Subject |
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
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Family crises -- Fiction.
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Conspiracies -- Fiction.
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New Orleans (La.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
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Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
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Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780802123619 (hbk.) |
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0802123619 (hbk.) |
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