04777cam a2200433 4500 235241679 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307908353 0307908356 B00C8S9UYE Amazon cae11725-da03-4450-9a9d-6ea3311da4d0 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1275304 OverDrive (Product ID) 224502 1275304 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McFarland, Dennis. Nostalgia [Libby] : A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2271kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:<p>"Walt Whitman, who haunts the pages of this sensitive, ingenious, beautifully written novel, famously said that the real Civil War would 'never get into the books.' <i>Nostalgia</i> deftly explores an aspect of war little understood in Whitman's time or in our own--the invisible wounds combat inflicts upon many of those who somehow manage to survive it."</p>. HTML:Geoffrey C. Ward, coauthor of <i>The Civil War</i> and author of <i>A Disposition to Be Rich</i>. "Emotionally harrowing . . . McFarland manages to find something new to say about a war that could have had everything said about it already . . . A moving account of one soldier's journey to hell and back, and his struggle to make his own individual peace with the world afterward.". Publishers Weekly. "McFarland is a Divine Watchmaker of a novelist.". Newsweek. "A writer of extraordinary sympathy and compassion that are remarkably free from sentimentality.". HTML:<i>Boston Sunday Globe</i>. "McFarland is heir to the great Southern literary tradition, and his observations, however somber in import or lyrical in delivery, are always laced with a splendid appreciation of life's absurdities.". HTML:<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>. "McFarland has to be counted one of the brightest hopes for the literate American novel. I don't think there's a writer alive who wouldn't like to have written some of his sentences . . . You want to compare him to Chopin or Mendelssohn more than to any particular writer.". HTML:<i>Hartford Courant</i>. HTML:<p>This stunning Civil War novel from best-selling author Dennis McFarland brings us the journey of a nineteen-year-old private, abandoned by his comrades in the Wilderness, who is struggling to regain his voice, his identity, and his place in a world utterly changed by what he has experienced on the battlefield.<br /> <br /> In the winter of 1864, Summerfield Hayes, a pitcher for the famous Eckford Club, enlists in the Union army, leaving his sister, a schoolteacher, devastated and alone in their Brooklyn home. The siblings, who have lost both their parents, are unusually attached, and Hayes fears his untoward secret feelings for his sister. This rich backstory is intercut with scenes of his soul-altering hours on the march and at the front--the slaughter of barely grown young men who only days before whooped it up with him in a regimental ball game; his temporary deafness and disorientation after a shell blast; his fevered attempt to find safe haven after he has been deserted by his own comrades--and, later, in a Washington military hospital, where he finds himself mute and unable even to write his name. In this twilit realm, among the people he encounters--including a compassionate drug-addicted amputee, the ward matron who only appears to be his enemy, and the captain who is convinced that Hayes is faking his illness--is a gray-bearded eccentric who visits the ward daily and becomes Hayes's strongest advocate: Walt Whitman. This timeless story, whose outcome hinges on friendships forged in crisis, reminds us that the injuries of war are manifold, and the healing goodness in the human soul runs deep and strong.<br /> <br /> This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 14:05:11. http://nh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=cae11725-da03-4450-9a9d-6ea3311da4d0 https://samples.overdrive.com/nostalgia-cae117?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/nostalgia-cae117?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/nostalgia-cae117?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)