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The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Label: Henry Holt and Co.
Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: July 25, 2006
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Studio: Henry Holt and Co.
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Editorial Review:
After returning from the Civil War, Cass Wakefield means to live out the rest of his days in his hometown in Mississippi. But when a childhood friend asks him to accompany her to Franklin, Tennessee, to recover the bodies of her father and brother from the battlefield where they died, Cass cannot refuse. As they make their way north in the company of two of Cass's brothers-in-arms, memories of the war emerge with overwhelming vividness. Before long the group has assembled on the haunted ground of Franklin, where past and present--the legacy of war and the narrow hope of redemption--will draw each of them to a painful reckoning.
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Rating:  - Bahr is a beautiful writer
First and foremost, I love Bahr's poetic prose. Just beautiful. He paints beautiful images with his words like no one in today's literary world. The reason I gave this book 4 stars and not 5, is because as good as his writing is, he has trouble with plot points, which seem at times contrived (Simon Rope in The Black Flower). In The Judas Field, Lucian finding Cass and Roger during the Battle of Franklin really stretched and didn't suspend my disbelief. In my view with the "fog of war" at hand and ... Read More
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Rating: - The terible beauty of war
This is an excellent, well-written book that falls neatly into the era of the author's other two works "The Black Flower" and "The Year of Jubilo". We find some familiar names here, particularly Bushrod Carter, who was in the other two books. This book stands on its own, with its own characters and plot, but really the writing and the descriptions are the main focus of the work, at least for me. I have rarely, if ever, read a book that so well conveys the "terrible beauty" of war, but then goes on ... Read More
Rating: - A moving piece of LIterature
This completes a "trilogy" by Howard Bahr that in my opinion is more profound and moving than other more "popular" works about the Civil War. (Cold Mountain, anyone?) The Judas Field is so beautiful yet so powerful. The conclusion is completely ironic and significant. Wow. Words can't express how this book made me feel about the Civil War. This book just puts you there, in the middle of it all, and then shows you how difficult of a time people had after the conflict. I consider this to be fine literature, ... Read More
Rating: - Laying the Ghosts
A story of the search for healing of the brutal scars of battle. The fight is not over when the treaties are signed: The soldier's psyche continues the struggle for reconciliation and healing of memory. Once again, Bahr dares to go where few authors would tread exploring the battlefield of the mind as well as the terrain of the Battle of Franklin.
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