The Death of a Confederate Colonel - Civil War Stories and a Novella

Informationen zum Autor Pat Carr! whose stories Leonard Michaels has described as "finely controlled and significantly moving!" has written twelve books of fiction! including The Women in the Mirror! winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award! and If We Must Die! a finalist in the PEN book awards. Her more than one hundred short stories have been published in the Southern Review! Yale Review! and Best American Short Stories! among other publications. Carr has taught at Rice! Tulane! Western Kentucky! and the University of New Orleans. She lives in Elkins! Arkansas. To read an interview with the author! visit www.uapress.com. Klappentext Presents a collection of stories that takes us into the lives of those left behind during the Civil War. This book tells the story of a Confederate woman's care of and growing affection for a wounded Union soldier! a plantation mistress' singular love for a sick slave child! and an eight-year-old girl's fight for survival. Zusammenfassung Presents a collection of stories that takes us into the lives of those left behind during the Civil War. This book tells the story of a Confederate woman's care of and growing affection for a wounded Union soldier! a plantation mistress' singular love for a sick slave child! and an eight-year-old girl's fight for survival.

Product details

• Authors: Pat Carr
• Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2007
• EAN: 9781557288356
• ISBN: 978-1-55728-835-6
• No. of pages: 161
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 6 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature