Goodland-Grant Township Public Library

Raintree County :

by Lockridge, Ross,
Additional authors: Wouk, Herman, -- 1915-
Published by : Chicago Review Press, (Chicago, Ill. :) Physical details: xx, 1066 pages : iil., map ; 21 cm ISBN:9781556527104; 1556527101.
Subject(s): Indiana -- Fiction. | Teachers -- Fiction. | Indiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction. | Indiana. | Fiction. | Historical fiction. | Bildungsromans.
Year: 2007
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Reprint with a new foreword. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1948.

For the first time in paperback--the epic, great American novel about love, tragedy, and the American Dream. Told in a series of flashbacks, this is the story of John Wickliff Shawnessy, who grows up to be the epitome of Civil War-era America. Originally published in 1948.

Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life-- from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics of the Gilded Age, to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father. Shawnessy is the epitome of the place and period in which he lives, a rural land of springlike women, shady gamblers, wandering vagabonds, and soapbox orators. Yet here on the banks of the Shawmucky River, which weaves its primitive course through Raintree County, Indiana, he also feels and obeys ancient rhythms.

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