Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War Contributor(s): McCaig, Donald (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393337103 ISBN-13: 9780393337105 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $30.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2009 Annotation: Lauded by the "Virginia Quarterly" as "the best Civil War novel ever written, " "Jacob's Ladder" resonates with all the bitter glory and deep human shame of America's greatest war. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (1.35 lbs) 528 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Topical - Civil War |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 54935 Reading Level: 6.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 31.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Jacob's Ladder is a Civil War epic, a love story that pits the indomitable longing of the human heart against circumstances of racism, slavery, and war. Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to the Gatewood plantation, falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto slave, who conceives a son, Jacob. Maggie and Jacob are sold south, and Duncan is packed off to the Virginia Military Institute. As Duncan fights for Robert E. Lee, Jesse--a Gatewood slave whose love for Maggie is unrequited--escapes north and enlists in Lincoln's army, determined to confront his former masters, while Maggie finds herself living a life she never could have imagined as the wife of a blockade runner. From the interlocked lives of masters and slaves, Donald McCaig conjures a passionate and richly textured story in the heart of America's greatest war. The destiny of these three compelling characters connect a Vicksburg brothel to a Richmond salon, the nightmare of a Confederate hospital to the lurid hell of battlefields at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Winner of the John Eston Cook Award |
Contributor Bio(s): McCaig, Donald: - Donald McCaig (1940--2018) was the author of many historical novels including Jacob's Ladder, Rhett Butler's People, and Canaan. |