Perry, Owen - Faded Coat Of Blue - Plot & Excerpts
I walked the Welsh valleys—so different now than in their black heyday—and the streets of Washington were home to me for years. I grew up in the Pennsylvania coal fields, where the shadows of history and Philadelphia’s old money fell heavily upon us. I even went to Attock Fort and old Lahore. Whether the high water along the first several blocks of Pennsylvania Avenue on the morning of Scott’s departure, the books available in the shops, or the practice of the quack healer, Dr. La Bonta, the backdrop of this novel is drawn from contemporary and eyewitness sources, or from personal knowledge of the shape of the land and the many shapes of humanity. There is so much richness in our Civil War era, so much beyond the oft-described battles and repertory heroes, that I yearn to draw the reader deeper into that age. The Civil War made the America we know, but we hardly know the America of the Civil War. It was a time of immeasurable courage and noble hopes, but also of stunning prejudice and the brutalization of immigrants—our New Jerusalem was built on Babel.
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