Jordan County by Shelby Foote

Jordan County

Shelby Foote

304 pages first pub 1954 (view editions)

fiction historical emotional slow-paced
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Jordan County by Shelby Foote is ideal for readers who appreciate deeply emotional, character-driven historical narratives that explore the lingering impacts of societal traumas through interconnected stories spanning generations.

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Before Shelby Foote under took his epic history of the Civil War, he wrote this fictional chronicle -- "a landscape in narrative" -- of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as ro...

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