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Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War
Contributor(s): McCaig, Donald (Author)
ISBN: 0393337103     ISBN-13: 9780393337105
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $30.35  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2009
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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
 
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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
Winner of the Boyd Military Novel 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.