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A rich and masterful novel about love and the question of race in post-Civil War America; Spanning the post-Civil War era to the edge of the Great Depression in the Fall is an extraordinary epic of three generations of an American family, the dark secrets that blister at its core, and the transcendent bonds between men and women that fuel their lives over the course of six decades. In the twilight of the Civil War, a Union soldier named Norman Pelham is found battle-wounded and near death by Leah, a slave running from a different hell. After Leah nurses him back to health, Norman brings her to his family homestead in Vermont as his wife, and there they begin a family that will be shaped by their passionate devotion to each other and its consequences.
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In the Fall, Jeffrey Lent
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- Released
- 2001
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- Title
- In the Fall
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jeffrey Lent
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 511
- ISBN10
- 037570745X
- ISBN13
- 9780375707452
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, USA, Wars, Literary Fiction, Civil War
- Description
- A rich and masterful novel about love and the question of race in post-Civil War America; Spanning the post-Civil War era to the edge of the Great Depression in the Fall is an extraordinary epic of three generations of an American family, the dark secrets that blister at its core, and the transcendent bonds between men and women that fuel their lives over the course of six decades. In the twilight of the Civil War, a Union soldier named Norman Pelham is found battle-wounded and near death by Leah, a slave running from a different hell. After Leah nurses him back to health, Norman brings her to his family homestead in Vermont as his wife, and there they begin a family that will be shaped by their passionate devotion to each other and its consequences.