- World War, 1914-1918, Plantations, Family secrets, Memory
Moving to rural Georgia, a failed academic plans to write a history of his family's old plantation and the horrors that occurred there but instead discovers a sense of unspoken dread among the townspeople and a long-standing debt of blood.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Christopher Buehlman
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Ace Books, MidWorld Press
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593198056
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About Christopher Buehlman · 1969
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