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A shout in the ruins a novel

A novel that spans one hundred years and is set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society as it examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation and their descendants.

Main Author: Powers, Kevin (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Plantations > Fiction.
Plantation owners > Fiction.
Slavery > Fiction.
Race relations > Fiction.
Virginia > History > Fiction.
Virginia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Fiction.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Epic fiction.
War fiction.
Summary: A novel that spans one hundred years and is set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society as it examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation and their descendants.
Physical Description: 261 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN: 9780316556477
0316556475
9780316449540
0316449547
Author Notes: Kevin Powers is the author of The Yellow Birds , which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist, as well as Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting , a collection of poetry. He was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar.

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