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      The Amalgamation Polka

      by Stephen Wright
      Published
      Feb 2006
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      336
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      A Civil War novel unlike any other: the story of a young man's journey through a nation blasted apart.
      Born in 1844, Liberty Fish is the descendant of both Carolina slaveholders and New York abolitionists. In hopes of reconciling the warring strands of his heritage, he escapes his home in the North -- first into the cauldron of the Civil War, and then into the even more disturbing bedlam that follows.
      The Amalgamation Polka showcases not only the brutality of this tragic passage in American history, but also its surprising compassion and hope. In language both true to its time and completely modern, it is revelatory and mesmerizing, a novel that "will bring a smile to your own lips as it sets your brain on fire." (Jason McBride, the Village Voice).

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      Jun 2007 Vintage ISBN13 9780679772941 ISBN10 0679772944
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      Jan 2001 Faber and Faber (UK) ISBN13 9780571231133 ISBN10 0571231136
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      First Edition Feb 2006 Knopf ISBN13 9780679451174 ISBN10 067945117X
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      Feb 2006 Recorded Books ISBN13 9781419371684 ISBN10 1419371681
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