Secessia
  • Published:
    Jul-2015 (Hardcover)
    Jul-2016 (Paperback)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    1860's-1870's Civil War (1861-1865)
  • Pages:
    352
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From the immensely talented author of "The Blood of Heaven" comes a gothic portrait of a city ravaged by war and struck by vice and disease -- Civil War New Orleans. With his virtuosic, richly historical prose, Wascom carves a tale of insurrection and ill-advised romance, spanning one year in the city at the heart of Secessia, the rebellious just-conquered south.

New Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the confederacy has fallen to Union troops under the soon-to-be-infamous General Benjamin "the Beast" Butler. When twelve-year-old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he terrifies his mother, Elise, a mixed-race woman passing for white, and enrages his father, Angel, whose long and wicked life is drawing to a close. What follows forces mother and son into a dark new world: Joseph must come to grips with his father's legacy of violence and his growing sentiment for Cuban exile Marina Fandal, the only survivor of a shipwreck that claimed the lives of her parents. Elise must struggle to maintain a hold on her sanity, her son, and her own precarious station, but is threatened by the resurgence of a troubling figure from her past, Dr. Emile Sabatier, a fanatical physician who adores disease and is deeply mired in the conspiracy and intrigue surrounding the occupation of the city. Their paths all intersect with General Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts, a man who history will call a beast, but whose avarice and brutal acumen are ideally suited to the task of governing an "ungovernable city."

A haunting tale of greed and malformed love, of slavery and desperation, "Secessia" weaves a vivid tapestry of a dark period in New Orleans's turbulent history.
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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Jul-2016
    • Grove Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0802124968
    • ISBN13: 9780802124968
    • First Edition
    • Jul-2015
    • Grove Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0802123619
    • ISBN13: 9780802123619
    •  
    • Jul-2015
    • Grove Press
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Jul-2015
    • Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0802191339
    • ISBN13: 9780802191335
    •  
    • Dec-2015
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1511327529
    • ISBN13: 9781511327527



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