Description
A powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary of Civil War generals. With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his award-winning fictional trilogy of the Haitian Revolution, Madison Smartt Bell now turns his gaze to America's Civil War. We see Forrest on and off the battlefield, in less familiar but no less revealing moments of his life; we see him treating his slaves humanely even as he fights to ensure their continued enslavement; we see his knack for keeping his enemy unsettled, his instinct for the unexpected, and his relentless stamina. As Devil's Dream moves back and forth in time, a vivid portrait comes into focus: a rough, fierce man with a life full of contradictions.
Author: Madison Smartt Bell
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/16/2010
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.24w x 0.78d
ISBN13: 9780307279910
ISBN10: 030727991X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | War & Military
- Fiction | Biographical
About the Author
Madison Smartt Bell is the author of fourteen previous works of fiction, including Soldier's Joy and Anything Goes. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and grew up collecting bullets on the same fields where many of Forrest's battles were fought. He now lives in Baltimore, where he has taught at Goucher College since 1984.