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ReviewAfter the end of hostilities, Major General James Con O’Keeffe, an Irish rebel turned Yankee commander, is offered the governorship of Redemption Falls as a “reward” for his peculiar ability to make mincemeat out of his own men. Unable to communicate with his beautiful, much younger wife, who has joined him from New York, where she is infinitely more at home, he adopts a young mute and former boy solider, Jeremiah Mooney. Meanwhile, Jeremiah’s sister, Eliza, is walking on foot across America in search of him, risking the attentions of defeated yet defiant Confederate irregulars. When Jeremiah goes missing O’Keeffe is distraught but impotent, until offered a lead by a sinister cartographer who has long coveted the general’s wife. When reading this novel one is frequently amazed by the exactness and aptness of O’Connor’s language and imagery. There are remarkable turns of phrase on almost every page. It is a wonderfully atmospheric novel, perfectly evoking the upheaval of civil war and the demise of the confederate South, rich in gallantry and courtesy but rotten to its core. - review by Paul Engles |
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